A cluster mobile switching center
CA 2252018 C · Owner: Lucent Technologies Inc. · Inventors: Ramjee, Ramachandran; La Porta, Thomas F.; Buskens, Richard Wayne
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A "cluster mobile switching center" (cMSC) is arranged to perform the switching and control functions of a conventional mobile switching center (MSC), including, if desired, the additional functions of a conventional visitor location register (VLR). The cMSC is implemented on distributed processors using modular software. Advantageously a, specific instance of middleware, known as Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), is used as the communications middleware. Functionally, the cMSC is arranged to have two classes of servers: (1) Interworking managers (IMs) that act as gateways and provide interfaces to external network elements and (2) core servers that, perform call processing …
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- Filed October 28, 1998 and granted October 22, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 28, 2018.
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