Method and apparatus for enabling customer premises public branch exchange service feature processing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9036627-B2
Application number	US-201213691386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2012
Priority date	Nov 3, 2008
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

A method and apparatus for enabling customer premise Public Branch eXchange (PBX) service feature processing to be performed in a service provider network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message associated with a user, and accesses a customer premise Internet Protocol (IP) Public Branch eXchange (PBX) to retrieve customer premise IP PBX based service logic and data associated with the user by a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) network element. The method then completes a service feature associated with the service logic and data in the communication network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for processing a signaling message in a communication network, comprising:
receiving, by a processor of a serving call session control function network element deployed in the communication network, a signaling message associated with a user;
accessing, by the processor of the serving call session control function network element, a customer premises internet protocol public branch exchange deployed in an enterprise network to retrieve customer pr…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Duffy Dennis
• Johnson Leticia D
• Johnson Myranda
• Parlamas Stephanie P
• Siegel Steven A

Classifications

• H04L65/1053

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/42314 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04Q2213/13204

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M7/0093

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04Q2213/13384

  Electricity · mapped topic