Appeal No. 2002-1686
Application No. 09/188,680
different carriers' portions of a telecommunication network, in
order to reconcile accounting information regarding such traffic
and/or to identify significant traffic patterns for engineering
purposes. See page 1 of Appellants' specification. The
invention provides effective techniques for tracking traffic
through a telecommunication network in such a manner as to enable
analysis of interconnect traffic between two carriers' networks.
See page 13 of Appellants' specification. The call records are
developed from monitoring or compiling of items of information
from certain management data messages used by the carriers'
networks. Management data here refers to information generated
by the telecommunication network for its operations purposes, for
example, interoffice signaling messages generated to control call
set-up and tear-down. Another example of such data would be
messages sent from central offices of the network to an
accounting office, for record keeping and billing purposes. See
page 13 of Appellants' specification. Figure 5 is a flow chart
illustrating the high-level process of overall management of a
traffic track study, such as a CLEC traffic study. Figure 6 is a
flow chart useful in explaining the operations involved in data
preparation in the traffic track system. See page 17 of
Appellants' specification.
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