English <> Spanish by Jaime Aguirre - SpinTra.com

bonded
pegado, ligado, unido, enlazado, trabado, adherido, adhesivo, con fianza, bajo fianza, obligación garantizada, obligación con garantía

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Note added at 18 mins (2009-01-10 21:45:15 GMT)
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http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6115386/description.html

In the attainment of the above primary object, the present invention provides, for use in a communications network capable of establishing a bonded call between first and second endpoints using at least two bonded communication channels, a subsystem for preserving a relative latency of the at least two bonded communication channels to allow the bonded call to be transferred to a third endpoint. The subsystem includes: (1) a buffer depth index detection circuit that detects learned values of buffer depth indices associated with the bonded call and stored at a first location and (2) a buffer depth index transmission circuit, coupled to the buffer depth index detection circuit, that transmits the learned values to a second location accessible by the third endpoint to allow the bonded call to be transferred to the third endpoint without requiring the third endpoint to relearn the values.

The present invention introduces the broad concept of transmitting buffer depth indices to allow bonded calls to be redirected. Alternatively, the buffer depth indices may be stored or manipulated to allow the bonded calls to be redirected. As those skilled in the art understand, each of the communication channels that are bonded together in a bonded call are subject to different network latencies. Buffer depth indices are employed in bonding schemes to introduce additional terminal latencies to the data carried on the channels to compensate for the different network latencies, thereby equalizing the overall latencies of the channels to synchronize the same.

The present invention therefore allows a bonded call to be transferred from the second endpoint to the third endpoint, placed on hold or retrieved, without requiring the third endpoint to relearn the values of the buffer depth indices. Thus, the second endpoint may place the bonded call on hold and later retrieve the bonded call; or the third endpoint may later retrieve the bonded call, resulting in a transfer of the call by way of hold. Alternatively, a direct transfer from the second endpoint to the third endpoint may be effected without placing the bonded call on hold.