Systems and methods for adjusting carrier quality metrics for intrinsic impairments

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9560180
APP PUB NO 20130163730A1
SERIAL NO

13337086

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An Internet protocol (IP) telephony system terminates calls to certain groups of telephone numbers via multiple different telephony carriers. The IP telephony system will discontinue using a telephony carrier to terminate calls if the quality provided by the carrier falls below a threshold level. The IP telephony system includes a quality monitoring unit that determines when a particular group of telephone numbers are intrinsically impaired, such that no carrier could provide high quality when terminating calls to those numbers. In these circumstances, the IP telephony system adjusts the quality threshold to which a carrier's quality is compared when completing calls to the impaired numbers to account for the intrinsic impairment of the telephone numbers.

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  • VONAGE BUSINESS INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bucko, Andrew Old Bridge, US 13 34
Kadakia, Nirav J Parlin, US 6 8
Majd, Casem Holmdel, US 13 50
Rao, Gopala Homdel, US 2 0
Vansaders, Stephen Manalapan, US 4 9

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