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Patent Document Number: 2331958

(54) English Title: DYNAMIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN AN INTELLIGENT NETWORK OF A TELEPHONE SYSTEM

(54) French Title: GESTION DE TRAFIC DYNAMIQUE DANS UN RESEAU INTELLIGENT D'UN SYSTEME TELEPHONIQUE

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Claims:

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Claims:

1. A method for managing call traffic in a system having a service
switching point (SSP) connected to a service control point (SCP) comprising
the steps
of:
sending a traffic monitoring initiation request from the SCP to the SSP;
monitoring call traffic at the SSP according to the traffic monitoring
request;
sending a response to the SCP including results of said monitoring;
determining from said results if traffic management needs to be
applied;
if traffic management needs to be applied, applying traffic
management.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring initiation request is
a monitor route request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring initiation request is
a TC-Begin request.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring initiation request is
a monitor route request and said response to the SCP is monitor route report.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring initiation request is
a monitor route request and said response to the SCP is monitor route report
with
information that a high watermark of failures has been reached.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:
said monitoring initiation request is a monitor route request;
said response to the SCP is monitor route report with information that a
high watermark of failures has been reached; and
said applying of network management step includes sending a call gap
instruction to the SSP.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein call gap criteria are sent along with
the call gap instruction.




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8. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring initiation request is a
Transaction Capabilities-Begin (TC-Begin) request to monitor all failures for
a set period
of time and said response to the service control point (SCP) is monitor report
with
information of the number of call failures during the preset time, which has
expired.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein:
said monitoring initiation request is a Transaction Capabilities-Begin
(TC-Begin) request to monitor all failures for a set period of time;
said response to the service control point (SCP) is monitor report with
information of all failures during the set period of time; and
said applying of network management step includes a sending call gap
instruction to the service switching point (SSP).
10. The method of claim 1, wherein:
said monitoring initiation request is a Transaction Capabilities-Begin
(TC-Begin) request to monitor all failures for a set period of time;
said response to the service control point (SCP) is monitor report with
information of all failures during the set period of time; and
said applying of network management step includes sending a connect-
and analyze information instruction that has an alternative route in a
destination route
address (DRA) data field to the service switching point (SSP).
11. The method of claim 1, wherein:
said monitoring initiation request is a monitor route request;
said response to the SCP is monitor route report with information that a
high watermark of failures has been reached; and
said applying of network management step includes sending a connect-
and analyze information instruction that has an alternative route in a
destination route
address (DRA) data field to the SSP.
12. An arrangement for managing call traffic in a system having a
service switching point (SSP) connected by SS7 connections and signaling to a
service
control point (SCP) comprising:
means for sending a traffic monitoring initiation request from the SCP to
the SSP;
means monitoring call traffic at the SSP according to the traffic
monitoring request in response thereto;



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means for sending a response to the SCF including results of said
monitoring;
means for determining from said results if traffic management needs to
be applied; and
means for applying traffic management if traffic management is needed
to reduce route failures.