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Prestigious printmaking conference sees record attendance
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The annual conference has attracted 2,060 artists from around the world to Milwaukee, said Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, the head of printmaking at UWM's Peck School of the Arts and one of the people who helped attract the conference to Milwaukee. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from Big Time Rush, AWOLNATION, Marc Anthony and Capital Cities
Big Time Rush, pictured here performing at the Marcus Amphitheater during Summerfest last year, dropped a new single, "Like Nobody's Around," from its forthcoming album "24/7." Photo by Chris Wilson. »Read Full Blog Post
Half of TV shows have violence, report says
A survey conducted the month after vice president Joe Biden's meeting in January with network television executives on TV violence showed that almost half of the shows monitored contained acts of violence, according to an Associated Press story.
According to the survey conducted by the Parents Television Council between Jan. 11 and Feb. 11, there were 193 acts of violence in 392 hours' worth of episodes monitored. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
This time, Tracy Morgan promises, he'll show up
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Walker's Point getting Black Sheep, a lounge-wine bar serving small plates
Black Sheep, a bar that will serve small plates, is due to open in August at 216 S. 2nd St. in Walker's Point.
Work has been going on at the site for the past few months. KPH Construction, which bought the turn-of-the-20th-century building in December, announced the new lounge today. »Read Full Blog Post
Bud Light bringing Best Coast to Rave for 50 concerts, 50 states event
Bud Light is mounting an ambitious marketing campaign where it's sponsoring 50 concerts in 50 states, all taking place on a single day. And the site of the Wisconsin show will be Milwaukee, with dreamy pop rock duo Best Coast headlining the Rave Aug. 1.
Bud Light's 50/50/1 campaign, created in partnership with Live Nation, MySpace and Universal Music Group, is being orchestrated to promote the beer brand's new Music First marketing platform. MySpace will be streaming select concerts, but its uncertain at this time if the Best Coast show will be one of them. »Read Full Article
Video: Danish band New Politics talk about Landing their Big Gig
Scores of bands, from Alabama Shakes to Wisconsin's Bon Iver, had some of their first career-changing gigs at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Mayday!
Just because it's May Day, there's no need to panic. Well, maybe a little.
Summerfest's Miller Lite Oasis lineup includes Nelly, LeAnn Rimes, Imagine Dragons
Summerfest officials Wednesday morning revealed the 2013 headliner lineup for the Miller Lite Oasis, announcing three new additions to the Big Gig roster in the process: Bob Marley's old band the Wailers, country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes and Grammy-winning rapper Nelly.
The Oasis headliners are as follows: »Read Full Article(4)


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In this theme there is a default 'Home' page/link - and cannot figure out how to 'merge' as it were home and splash, so they are not 2 separate pages as they are now.... i mean they are the same exact page, content wise, but do not need both links/pages. Does that make sense??
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Is frustrating at times, when you are only allow ISO 800 and 1600, nothing in between~ I was out taking some indoor picture with my friend and his D70, made me think about sell my D50 in ebay~My wish list from Nikon is, update our firmware! better ISO step! for the love of God!!
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#1. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 0
I think Nikon was following the traditional film speed with the D50. I know you can push or pull film but then you have to use the whole roll that way but for the most part we used 800 or 1600 there was no in between that was readily available. Plus if the D50 had the same specs why would you buy a D70s for 200 hundred more. Friends of mine who have the D70s would rather the ISO steps not be 1/3 because it makes manual ISO changes a pain by stepping up by thirds.Also the D50's software and ISO settings are optimized to reduce noise at high ISO's ie 800 and 1600 which according to several reviewers and Nikon is lower than the D70s this may be some of the reason for the bigger steps but I think its marketing to keep a demarkation between the D50 and D70s.But if the ISO steps are to big and really bother you then a D70s is a good choice and the learning curve will be short. Good luck but if you sell try here at nikonians first if you upgrade to silver I am sure there would be several film buyers that are Digital cutious but do not want to drop a boat load of cash on a digital body.
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#3. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 1
If you use auto ISO it chooses steps in between which seems a reasonable compromise. As 800 to 1600 is still only one stop I can't see it being a problem for me but we all have different needs.
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#2. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 0
ISO increments on digital cameras are almost always one stop increments; 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, ... . Smaller increments, while possible, would be finer adjustments than necessary.BTW, one stop increments in ISO and shutter speeds are double or half of the previous value so the increment between 800 and 1600 is the same as the increment between 100 and 200. Its a geometric progression and not a linear scale. With f/stops you multiply or divide by the square root of 2 (~1.414) to get one stop increments.
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#4. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 2
For that kind of situations i'd recommend "auto iso" too, just set the shutter speed you wantand camera selects iso value automatically and wihout the 1 step limitation.
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#5. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 4
I would be all for the 1/3 step increments being an option too, ie: with the option to be full stop, 1/2 or 1/3....
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#6. "RE: Complaint: ISO step to big~" | In response to Reply # 0
All reviews to date find that the camera is pushing the limits of the higher ISOs and it has even better high ISO performance than the D70, so that should be some comfort. If you need more detailed control, it's really time to consider moving up to the D70 or the D200.


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OAN Services charges to phone bill. unknown where they stole my information. I consider this identity theft. clearwater, Florida
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We came to New Orleans under the assumption that my husband would have the position he was hired for. He interviewed and they told him he would, at the very least, have an assistant manager position immediately. They told him a couple of weeks later that he would have the GM position and get to take over the store. He spent hours on the online manager training while being undertrained by the incompetent staff who were persistently on their cell phones at work, flirting with one another, and giving the wrong change. One girl's drawer came up 200$ short.
As soon as he was given the power to lead, the store's numbers turned around, the drawers came up even, and all the prep was done for the next shift. Customer satisfaction had turned around in just a month.
Yesterday, he came home after a managerial meeting where they informed him he was not even going to get the assistant manager position and that his hours were going to be cut in half after they sang his praises in every meeting and promised him a managerial position.
I assume it's store politics. He made all the other managers look bad when he made people do their jobs. Either way, we should not have been lied to. We won't be able to pay our bills or make our rent because we were lied to. This is poor leadership and poor business practice. Needless to say, he has put his application in where the corporation actually cares about not only having a good product, but good stores with excellent customer service too.
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Definition of unchanging in English:
Not changing; remaining the same: the party stood for unchanging principles
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- She has remained still, unchanging, as change has swept through the world around her.
- Just as the beauty of movie stars cannot last very long, the standards of outward beauty have never remained unchanging.
- Such patriotism was remarkably sustained, though not unchanging, continuing through to the end of the war.
consistent, constant, regular, even, uniform, unvarying, predictable, stable, steady, fixed, permanent, perpetual, eternal;
sustained, lasting, persistent, uninterrupted, continuous, continual, ceaseless, incessant, unceasing, never-ending, non-stop, interminable, unabating, unabated, unrelieved, unremitting, relentless
unchangingly adverb
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- God may unchangingly bring about historical changes.
- In narratives by English writers from the time of Margery Kempe, the litany of discomfort, hazard, and mortal peril echoes almost unchangingly down the centuries, muting fainter sounds of pleasure.
- In this context, there have been few studies of the Paris region, since urban and economic geographers have been reluctant to analyze a metropolis that has been described as unchangingly monocentric.
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Men's Golf Team In Seventh Place After First Round of Saint John's Invititational
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Klass And Collins Named MIAC Athletes Of The Week
Two members of the Gustavus softball team earned MIAC Softball Athletes of the Week honors yesterday. Sophomore second baseman Lisa Klass earned player of the week honors while senior pitcher Betsie Collins was awarded pitcher of the week.
Melissa Mackley, Kirstin Peterson Named First Team All-America In Women's Hockey
Gustavus women's hockey players Melissa Mackley and Kirstin Peterson were named to the American Hockey Coaches Association All-America team today. Mackley and Peterson, who were both First Team All-MIAC selections, are being honored on the All-America Team for the second consecutive year.
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Four Gustavus Seniors Featured In College Sporting News/MIAC Profiles Of Excellence
Five Gustavus Adolphus seniors have been profiled by Rich Mies as part of the MIAC Profiles of Excellence series. Football/hockey player Joe Welch (Hastings, Minn./Hastings), football/hockey player T.J. Ridley (Edina, Minn./Edina, hockey player Melissa Mackley (Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville), and basketball player Bri Radtke (Winsted, Minn./Lester Prairie) have all been featured.
Recent Interviews With Gustavus Coaches And Student-Athletes Added To Podcast Page
Interviews with Gustavus coaches and student-athletes have been added to the podcasts page found on the Gustavus Athletics website. Tom Wheeler sits down with coaches Jon Carlson, Jed Friedrich, and Kris Glidden, and student-athletes Carrie Gundersen, Jens Brabbit, and Kelly Mathewson, as part of the weekly Gustie Spotlight.
Men's Hockey Skates Past UW-Stout 4-1
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Men's Swimming & Diving Drops Dual Meet to St. Olaf 141-157
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Men's Hockey Slips Past UW-River Falls 3-2
The Gustavus men's hockey team jumped out to a 3-1 lead and then held on for a 3-2 win over previously unbeaten UW-River Falls in River Falls on Friday night. Senior captain Cody Mosbeck scored the gamewinner for the Gusties, while Josh Swartout picked up the win in the nets.
Mark Adams Named MIAC Men's Soccer Athlete of the Week
Gustavus Adolphus College sophomore forward Mark Adams (Waukee, IA) has been named MIAC Men's Soccer Athlete of the Week for his three goal performance in the Gusties' 4-3 win over Bethel on Friday.


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Video Conference Facilities
Limited Videoconference facilities are available in the WGB. There are two rooms equipped for use. The first, SC01, should be booked via Reception. That room has a conference phone (ext 34411) and also a Skype unit attached to a wall mounted TV screen. The instructions for using the Skype system are on an instruction sheet in the room. It is suggested that you ask the other party to call you on that system as entering usernames is difficult. For voice calls details on how to setup and use conference calls to multiple other participants are given on the UIS Telecomms website.
An additonal room (FW09) provides a more mainstream videoconference system. The equipment in that room is managed by the UCS VideoConference team. The room can be booked either with them or, for members of the CL, directly with our reception. In any case all support and help will be provided by the UIS staff.
A peripatetic voice conference phone is available from reception. It can be taken to any office and plugged in a socket on which any phone or computer is currently connected. Contact reception to borrow it. Loans should not normally exceed a half day.


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Joseph Curtin
|Joseph Curtin
Curtin in his studio, 2005
|Otto Erdesz
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Joseph Curtin is a contemporary violinmaker who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He was a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".[1] He has also directed workshops on violin design through the Violin Society of America, a group of builders.
Curtin is known for using technology such as MRIs, Lasers, and other scanning devices to measure the physics and acoustics of violins, to aid in his designs.[2][3] Curtin uses the information gathered to create replicas of famous antique violins, as well as research for more avante-garde designs including instruments made out of carbon fibre.[4]
Early luthery[edit]
Joseph first learned violin making from Otto Erdesz, who was married to his viola teacher. Erdesz gave Curtin material for his first twenty violins.
Curtin & Alf[edit]
Curtin was co-founder with Gregg Alf of the firm Curtin & Alf. In 1993, a Curtin and Alf violin made for Elmar Oliveira set a record at a Sotheby's auction for the highest price paid for a violin by a living maker.[5] Alf and Curtin dissolved their partnership after twelve years, but occasionally collaborate on a project together.
Player preferences among new and old violins[edit]
In 2010, Claudia Fritz and Curtin organized a double-blind study which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which 21 professional violinists tried to identify which violins were old (including 2 Stradivarius and a Guarneri), and which were new, and which they preferred.[6] 13 of the 21 violinists preferred the new violins. One of the Stradivarius violins was the least preferred.[7] The violinists could not reliably identify which instruments were old, and which were new.[8]
Earl Carlyss, a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, was critical of the study saying "It's a totally inappropriate way of finding out the quality of these instruments", and that what makes the older violins better is how they sound to an audience in a concert hall, not if the violinist likes it, in a hotel room.[9]
John Soloninka who was one of the violinists who played in the study said "It was fascinating. I too, expected to be able to tell the difference, but could not" and that "If, after this, you cling to picayune critiques and dismiss the study, then I think you are in denial. If 21 of us could not tell in controlled circumstances and 1500 people could not tell any differences in a hall, and this is consistent with past studies...then it is time to put the myths out to pasture."[10]
In a similar 1977 experiment, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and a classical violin dealer Charles Beare listened to a Stradivarius, a Guarneri, and a (then modern) 1976 British violin. They were also unable to identify which instrument was which, and two of them mistakenly identified the 1976 violin as the Stradivarius.[11]
Digital recreation of violin sound[edit]
Curtin worked with Gabi Weinreich, John Bell and Alex Sobolev to capture the sound characteristics of many classic violins. They used this data to create a signal processor, that could convert the sound produced by a standard digital violin, and make it sound like a Stradivarius or other classic violin. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and author of "This is your brain on music" was presented with recordings of an actual Stradivarius and a recording of a processed violin, and guessed incorrectly as to which was the classic violin. [12]
Notable Players[edit]
The following are notable violinists who use or have used violins made by Joseph Curtin.
- ^ Shave, Nick. "An instrument maker and a scientist talk about their passion for violin physics" (PDF). The Strad. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ Revkin, Andrew (November 28, 2006). "String Theory: New Approaches to Instrument Design". NY Times. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ Curtin, Joseph. "Measuring Violin Sound Radiation Using an Impact Hammer" (PDF). Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ "The Science of Sound: Examining the Role of Materials in Musical Instruments". Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ Taylor, Kate (November 5, 1993). "Strad Copy Sets Sotheby's Record". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ "Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?". NPR. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ "Stradivariusa po dźwięku nie poznacie...". Retrieved January 3, 2012.
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The present application claims priority to and the benefit of the prior filed copending and commonly owned provisional application entitled "Method and System for Transferring a Voice Mail Messaging Subscriber to a Different Voice Mailbox" filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Feb. 26, 1999, assigned Application No. 60/121,945, and incorporated herein by reference.
The inventions relate to messaging methods and systems, and particular relate to methods and systems providing a subscriber of a messaging system with access to a messaging platform as selected by the subscriber.
A subscription to a messaging system provides a subscriber with a convenient way to send and receive communications. A messaging system may provide the subscriber with messaging services that allow the subscriber to send and receive communications such as voicemail messages, other messages such as data messages, and facsimile transmissions (faxes). The messaging services typically are provided to a subscriber through a messaging platform, which the subscriber may access through the use of an administrative number or pilot number. For example, a subscriber may use his or her telephone to dial the pilot number and access the messaging platform to retrieve, send, and/or forward messages, to makes changes to his or her preferences in receiving services, and for other reasons. A call to the pilot number may be referred to as a pilot call or an administrative call. The messaging platform serving the subscriber may be referred to as the subscription messaging platform. The subscriber's line number served by the subscription messaging platform may be referred to as the subscription line number.
As a messaging system gains subscribers or otherwise expands, the system may add messaging platforms and distribute its subscribers among the platforms for messaging services. One of the problems that arises with the use of a plurality of messaging platforms is the manner in which access to the platforms is to be provided to the subscribers. With one platform, a single pilot number may be distributed to all of the subscribers for access to the platform because all of the administrative calls are handled by the same platform. But with a plurality of platforms, each respective group of subscribers served by a platform of the system typically has its administrative calls handled by its platform. Thus, a different pilot number may need to be distributed for each different messaging platform in the system. For example, a subscriber who is served by messaging platform "A" uses pilot number "A" for his or her administrative calls; a subscriber who is served by messaging platform "B" uses pilot number "B" for his or her administrative calls; etc.
But the use of multiple pilot numbers within a messaging system poses several problems and is inconvenient for the subscribers. A subscriber may have to memorize more than one pilot number if he or she is served by more than one messaging platform. For example, a subscriber may subscribe to messaging services such that calls to the subscriber's home telephone number are served by messaging platform A, but calls to the subscriber's office are served by messaging platform B. The subscriber has to remember to use pilot number A to retrieve his or her home telephone messages, and has to remember to use pilot number B to retrieve his or her office messages.
Another inconvenience of multiple pilot numbers is suffered by a subscriber when he or she changes his or her messaging services so as to be served by a different messaging platform. For example, a subscriber may move from one side of a city to the other, and in the course of the move, change messaging platforms. In that example, the subscriber has to memorize a new pilot number in addition to all the other new or changed information the subscriber has to memorize or otherwise retain as a result of the move.
As a result of the inconvenience to service providers as well as subscribers of messaging systems in the use of multiple pilot numbers, some messaging systems having a plurality of messaging platforms have implemented the use of a single or common pilot number. In these common pilot number messaging systems, each subscriber dials the same pilot number to reach his or her respective messaging platform. But the subscribers do not all reach the same platform or element even though they are all using the same pilot number. Rather, a trigger, flag, or other indicator may be set in the service switching point (SSP) (also referred to herein as "switch") serving the subscriber's line number. As a result, a call from the subscriber's line number that is received in its serving switch is routed to the messaging platform that has been assigned to that line number of the subscriber. In other words, some translation may occur in the switch or be obtained by the switch to route the call to the appropriate messaging platform. Once the call reaches the appropriate messaging platform, the subscription line number is used by the messaging platform to access the mailbox or other storage corresponding to the subscriber associated with the subscription line number.
The common pilot number messaging system generally avoids the problems discussed above in connection with the use of multiple pilot numbers. But the common pilot number messaging system has its own problems. One problem relates to a subscriber who uses the common pilot number in making an administrative call to the messaging system, but is not connected to the messaging platform which he or she desires. This problem is referred to herein as the "unconnected subscriber problem". This problem may arise in a number of ways. For example, reference is made to the above-mentioned subscriber who subscribes to messaging services such that calls to the subscriber's home telephone number are served by messaging platform A, but calls to the subscriber's office are served by messaging platform B. Suppose this subscriber desires to retrieve messages made to his or her home telephone number while the subscriber is at his or her office. The subscriber dials the common pilot number, but the administrative call is connected to messaging platform B, which serves the subscriber's office number. The subscriber is able to retrieve his or her office messages from messaging platform B, but not his or her home messages. Those home messages are located on a different messaging platform (messaging platform A) and are accessed from a different (home) telephone number.
Another situation in which the unconnected subscriber problem may arise is where two subscribers subscribe to the same messaging system, but each subscriber is served by a different messaging platform. Unfortunately, the subscribers are unable to use each other's telephones to receive their respective messages. This situation is illustrated by reference to the characters and events in the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Assume a first subscriber ("Red") is served by messaging platform A. Then assume Red's grandmother ("Granny") is served by messaging platform B. While visiting Granny's house, Red suspects that all is not well with Granny. Red decides to check her messages to see if any warning has been received from the friendly Woodcutter. But Red is unable to retrieve her messages from Granny's house. Red's call to the common pilot number on Granny's subscription number is directed to Granny's messaging platform. Thus, Red is unable to retrieve a warning (that a Wolf is posing as Granny) left on Red's messaging platform by the Woodcutter.
Accordingly, there is a need in a common pilot number messaging system for solutions to the unconnected subscriber problem. There is a need for methods and/or systems to allow a subscriber to call a pilot number from a line number other than his or her subscription line number and still be able to receive messaging services from his or her subscription messaging platform or from a selected messaging platform.
Generally stated, the present inventions solve the unconnected subscriber problem of a pilot number messaging system. Exemplary methods and systems of the present inventions allow a subscriber to call a pilot number from a line number other than his or her subscription line number to receive messaging services from his or her subscription messaging platform or from a selected messaging platform.
An exemplary embodiment operates in a messaging system having functionally connected elements including two messaging platforms, a service switching point (SSP), and an intelligent network element (INE). The first of the two messaging platforms is designated as a particular messaging platform (PMP) of a particular subscriber. The PMP may be the subscription messaging platform providing the particular subscriber with messaging services. Alternatively, the PMP may be a messaging platform selected by the particular subscriber.
The second of the two messaging platforms serves a different subscriber who is served by the SSP so that calls made on a line number of the different subscriber to a pilot number are routed by the SSP to the second messaging platform.
For this example, assume the second messaging platform has been accessed by a call directed to a pilot number from the particular subscriber on the line number of the different subscriber. The pilot number may be a number common to all subscribers of the messaging system for making administrative or pilot calls to the messaging system. As a result of the call to the pilot number, the second messaging platform is designated as a visited messaging platform (VMP) with respect to the particular subscriber making the pilot call. This exemplary method allows the particular subscriber to access the PMP even though the particular subscriber made the call to the pilot number from the line number of the different subscriber served by the VMP.
Once connected to the VMP, the call is routed to the appropriate mailbox based on the line number of the different subscriber. An announcement of the identity or other information corresponding to the mailbox of the different subscriber may be made to the call. In addition, the announcement may include information on how to backout of the call such as by the caller providing an indicator for such backout. In this example, the particular subscriber, as the caller, provides an indicator such as a backout indicator with respect to the call at the VMP.
In response to receiving the indicator, the VMP provides a backout notice such as by sending a release message to the SSP serving the line number of the different subscriber. In response to the backout notice, the SSP obtains instructions with respect to the call from the INE. The instructions from the INE instruct the SSP to obtain a number from the particular subscriber. The particular subscriber may provide his or her subscription number as the number. Alternatively, the particular subscriber may provide another number as the number. The SSP obtains the number from the particular subscriber and provides the number to the INE.
In response to receiving the number, the INE determines which messaging platform serves the number as the PMP. The INE obtains an address of the PMP, and provides the SSP with further instructions including the address of the PMP. The further instructions may include a directive to the SSP to present the address of the SMP to the call. This presentation may be made by an announcement or by sending data for display on the equipment being used by the particular subscriber. In the alternative, or in addition, the further instructions may include a directive to use the address to route the call to the PMP as the subscription messaging platform (SMP). The SSP then follows the further instructions.
If the particular subscriber has only received a presentation of the address of the PMP, then the particular subscriber may take action to use the address to access the PMP. If the SSP has routed the call to the PMP, then the particular subscriber typically receives an announcement at the PMP with respect to the mailbox corresponding to the number the particular subscriber had provided. This announcement may identify the person or other entity associated with the mailbox the particular subscriber has reached. As before, this announcement may provide the particular subscriber with information on how to backout of the call. The particular subscriber may elect, once again, to exercise the option to backout of the call, and to have the call redirected to another network element.
Advantageously, the present inventions allow a subscriber to call a pilot number by using another subscriber's equipment so that the subscriber conveniently may access his or her own messaging platform (to retrieve messages, etc.) or to access a messaging platform as selected by the subscriber.
FIG. 1 is an exemplary environment wherein exemplary embodiments of the present inventions may be implemented and may operate.
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating an exemplary method of the present inventions.
FIG. 3 is a timing diagram illustrating an exemplary method of the present inventions.
FIG. 4 is a table of information used in exemplary method of FIG. 3.
The present inventions generally relate to embodiments that allow a subscriber to access a messaging platform serving a selected number even though the subscriber gains such access by a call to a pilot number from a line number served by a different messaging platform from the messaging platform serving the selected number.
Exemplary Environment for Exemplary Embodiments
The exemplary embodiments of the present inventions are used, preferably, with a region-wide messaging (RWM) system, as described in greater detail below. Nevertheless, the exemplary embodiments may be used with any type of messaging system with the appropriate functionality.
The region-wide messaging system described herein generally allows a subscriber to the messaging system within the region of the service provider to engage in messaging by sending, receiving, forwarding, and replying to messages, including voicemail messages, faxes, Internet data (including voice-over-Internet messages), and other electronic data.
Exemplary System—FIG. 1
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary system 10 wherein exemplary embodiments of the present inventions may be implemented or operated. The system 10 includes a variety of interconnected network elements. A group of such elements includes the plurality of end offices, which are indicated as service switching points (SSPs or switches) 12 a, 12 b, 12 c. An SSP typically includes switch functionality, but also includes other functionality so as to communicate with other network elements, and in particular, with Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) elements. SSP 12 a and SSP 12 c are each coupled to a subscriber line, which also may be referred to as a line or calling line. Each SSP 12 a, 12 b, 12 c serves a designated group of lines, and thus, the SSP that serves a particular line may be referred to as its serving switch. The line is typically connected to a piece of terminating equipment including a telephone 14. Although a telephone 14 is illustrated as the terminating equipment, such terminating equipment may include other telecommunication devices including facsimile machines, computers, modems, etc. End offices may further be coupled through a tandem office (not illustrated), which may be used to connect and switch circuits between and among end offices.
Each active line in an AIN is assigned a ten digit (NPA-NXX-XX XX) line number regardless of whether seven or ten digits are dialed to reach the subscriber. A line number is commonly referred to as a number, telephone number, destination number, or a directory number. A line number of a subscriber may be referred to as a subscription line number.
SSP 12 b is connected by trunks (Signaling System 7 (SS7)) to a voice mail system (VMS1) 15. (These trunks use SS7 signals for call set-up and other actions and are referred to as SS7 trunks.) SSP 12 c is connected by SS7 trunks to a voice mail system (VMS2) 17. A voice mail system (VMS) also may be referred to as a messaging platform (MP).
SSPs 12 a, 12 b, 12 c are interconnected by a plurality of trunk circuits 18. These are the voice path trunks that interconnect the SSPs to connect communications. Each of the SSPs may be connected to another type of AIN element referred to as a local signal transfer point (STP) 20 via respective data links. Currently, these data links employ a signaling protocol referred to as Signaling System 7 (SS7). Much of the intelligence of the AIN resides in yet another type of element referred to as a service control point (SCP) 22 that is connected to STP 20 over an SS7 data link. Among the functions performed by the SCP 22 is the maintenance of network databases and subscriber databases as represented collectively by databases 24.
In order to keep the processing of data and calls as simple as possible, a relatively small set of triggers is defined at the SSPs for each call. A trigger in the AIN is an event associated with a particular call that generates a packet to be sent to an SCP. The SCP queries its databases or service package applications (SPAs) for processing instructions with respect to the particular call. The results are sent back to the SSP in response from the SCP 22 through STP 20. The return packet includes instructions to the SSP on how to process the call. The instructions may be to take some special action as a result of a customized calling service or an enhanced feature. In response to the instructions, the SSP moves through the remaining call states, may encounter further triggers, and generates further packets that are used to set up and route the call. Similar devices for routing calls among various local exchange carriers are provided by regional STP (not illustrated) and by regional SCP (not illustrated) which may be connected to STP 20, SCP 22, and/or to the elements described herein through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) 26.
When a subscriber (such as the person or entity using telephone 14) subscribes to messaging service, an entry including profile data relating to the subscriber is created in a VMS such as VMS 15 or 17. The VMS or messaging platform including a subscriber's profile data also provides the messaging services to the subscriber. Thus, a VMS that serves a subscriber may be referred to as a subscription messaging platform (SMP). Each VMS 15, 17 includes or is functionally connected to a subscriber profile database 28, 30. Each subscriber profile database stores subscriber-specific profile data for retrieval by VMS functions.
While the specific details of the VMS 15, 17 are vendor-specific, the VMS preferably has several capabilities. Each VMS 15, 17 includes subscriber administration, message retrieval, send, reply, forward, and mailbox maintenance functions, among others. Each VMS 15, 17 also has certain interface capabilities, including the ability to originate and terminate SS7 calls. In addition, the VMS 15, 17 have TCAP messaging ability.
Of course, the VMS 15, 17 are elements of the messaging system 10. To the protected TCP/IP network(s) 32 described below, the messaging platforms look like valid electronic (e-mail) destinations. In support of this, each VMS 15, 17 may be assigned a TCP/IP (or IP) address and/or a domain name. Generally, the IP or other address or domain name of the VMS 15, 17 may be stored in a region-wide messaging directory (RMD) 24 a, or may be stored on some domain name service (not illustrated) in the protected TCP/IP network(s) 32, or some other element. In further support of this TCP/IP capability, the VMS 15, 17 may also provide operations access to, two standard Internet mail administrative destinations, in addition to subscriber messaging mailbox destination. These destinations may include: "postmaster@mp 168.mps.com" and "non-mailuser@mp 168.msp.com" (where "mp 168.mps.com" in these destinations is the address of the VMS). In addition, each VMS is an SS7 network element and as such is assigned a point code such as a destination point code (DPC).
The VMS 15, 17 communicate with the SSP and the SCP according to the AIN 0.2 Switch—Intelligent Peripheral Interface Generic Requirements—1129-CORE Specification, AINGR: Switch-Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)(A module of AINGR, FR-15); Document Number: GR-1129; Issue Number: 03; Updates: REV 01—October 1997; Issue Date: September 1997; Product Type: Industry Requirements and Standards (RS); Component of FR-15, which is incorporated herein by reference. This 1129 Spec describes the use of a Remote Operations parameter for indicating the invocation of a supplementary service. The service is identified by an operation value. The Remote Operations Parameter may be used to allow the SCP and the VMS to share information regarding a subscriber to the messaging system.
In this messaging system, Internet messaging is allowed via a private Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network (protected TCP/IP network(s)) 32. The VMS 15, 17 through the network 32 routes Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) queries and responses to the proper destination/recipient. The routing scheme may be based on a combination of the area code (NPA), other elements of a directory number, and/or the service provider. For example, a VMS may send an LDAP query to the SCP with a destination address of firstname.lastname@example.com. A domain name server (not illustrated) (DNS or domain server) associated with the TCP/IP network 32 routes the LDAP query to the SCP 22 including a messaging directory 24 a associated or included in the SCP 22 for processing and returns a response. The TCP/IP network 32, using addresses from an LDAP query, transports Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) encoded messages between VMS 15, 17 and other VMS within the network 10. The LDAP query is used to determine routing for a message.
An Internet gateway 34 provides secure access between the private TCP/IP network 32 and the Internet 36. The gateway 34 limits the access of VPIM traffic to and from the Internet 36. In addition, the gateway 34 performs authorized LDAP messaging directory lookups to route messages received from the Internet 36.
Region-Wide Messaging Directory (RMD)
The SCP 22 is coupled to or includes one or more databases 24 and a Region-Wide Messaging Directory (RMD) 24 a. The RMD provides high-speed directory lookup for messaging subscribers. Generally, an RMD stores information referred to as profile data so as to determine which messaging platform of the system serves which subscriber, which mailbox, etc. Additional information on the manner in which the RMD of the messaging system 10 stores information on messaging platforms and subscribers and how an RMD interacts with network elements is provided in the commonly owned patent application entitled "Methods and Systems for Determining Messaging Routing Based on Elements of a Directory Number," filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Dec. 13, 1999, assigned Ser. No. 09/459,498, and incorporated herein by reference.
The RMD includes an interface for the Light-Weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The RMD may act as both a client and a server with respect to LDAP. Particularly, the RMD acts as an LDAP server in responses to queries for subscriber profile data (also referred to as profile data) from clients. The queries typically are LDAP v.2 formatted queries. The RMD stores the subscriber profile data which may include subscriber, service, and other messaging data. LDAP clients may retrieve the profile data relating to a particular subscriber or number from the RMD. In addition, the RMD supports the LDAP attributes field for LDAP clients to choose the fields that they desire to retrieve from the server. Each VMS has a unique domain name associated with it. The RMD stores the domain name of the subscriber's VMS in the service data of the subscriber's profile data.
Subscriber data may be stored in the RMD in the following exemplary fashion:
Description/Directory Field
LDAP DN Attribute
Subscriber's Mailbox Number
CN (Common Name)
Name Announcement
Spoken Name
Subscriber data is used to look up subscribers in the RMD. The data is also used for the purposes of routing and billing subscriber calls to and from the messaging platforms.
Service data may be stored in the RMD as follows:
Description/Directory Field
LDAP DN Attribute
VMS DAP Number
VMS Domain
LDAP Credentials
Included in LDAP query
VMS IP address
Included in LDAP query
The service data contains messaging platform-specific information to perform certain checks during directory look-up and call routing. The RMD may also store service provider data to ensure that a service provider has access to only its authorized subscribers' information.
Exemplary Methods
FIG. 2 illustrates the actions of an exemplary method in block diagram form using arrows to illustrate the actions among the pertinent elements of the system 10. FIG. 2 presents the relevant elements of the system 10 from FIG. 1, but in simplified format for ease of explanation. In particular, this block diagram illustrates an exemplary method for VMS 15 to interact through SSP 12 b with an intelligent network element (INE) 42 (including or composed of elements such as an SCP 22 and/or RMD 24 a), and another messaging platform 17. The interaction takes places in a messaging system 10 to allow a visiting subscriber 40 to access a selected messaging platform (SMP) 17 serving a selected number by placing a call to a pilot number on equipment having a line with a line number that is different from the selected number. The line number is served by a messaging platform ("visited messaging platform" or "VMP") 15 different from the selected messaging platform (SMP) 17.
The terms "visited", "visiting", "selected", "particular", "home", and "subscription" are used herein to ease explanation of the subject matter. But the subscriber does not have to be a "visitor" to another platform. For example, the subscriber may have a "home messaging platform" for his or her home messages, and an "office messaging platform" for his or her office messages. In this example, either the home or office messaging platform may be the "visited" or "subscription" platform depending on whether the subscriber is using his or her home equipment to obtain office messages or vice versa.
Moreover, a subscriber may select access to a messaging platform other than his or her home or subscription messaging platform. For example, a father and his daughter may both subscribe to messaging services, but be served by respective messaging platforms. In this example, assume father has asked his daughter to check his messages while father is out of the country. Daughter may find it more convenient to check her father's messages from a girlfriend's house than from her own or her father's home telephones. Pursuant to the present inventions, daughter may call the common pilot number, provide a backout indicator, provide her father's number as a "selected number", and then be provided with access to the messaging platform serving her father's number.
In addition, in some cases, a mailbox number of a subscriber may not be the same as the line number of the subscriber. Thus, the number provided by the subscriber to access the appropriate messaging platform, may be a mailbox number or identity number other than a line number.
To illustrate the exemplary method, referring to FIG. 2, assume a particular subscriber 40 is visiting a location of a different subscriber of the messaging system 10. The different subscriber is served by a messaging platform 15, which is different from that of the visiting subscriber 40, who is served by the home or subscription messaging platform (SMP) 17. Nevertheless, the visiting subscriber 40 desires to retrieve his or her messages from the SMP 17. The visiting subscriber 40 places an administrative or pilot call using the equipment of the different subscriber. This equipment is connected to a line having a line number that is served by SSP 12 b. The SSP 12 b is provisioned to route and/or to obtain instructions from an intelligent network element (INE) 42 to route the call to the VMP 15. Thus, the call to the pilot number initially is directed from the visiting subscriber 40 to SSP 12 b. See arrow 1. The SSP 12 b obtains instructions from the INE 42 to route the call to the VMP 15. See arrows 2 and 3. The SSP 12 b follows the instructions. See arrow 4.
Advantageously, this exemplary embodiment responds to receipt of the call to the pilot number by providing the caller with an announcement. See arrow 5. The announcement may provide the caller with information on the mailbox the caller has reached on the messaging platform 15. In particular, once the call is routed to the VMP 15, the line number on which the call to the pilot number is made is used to look up the corresponding mailbox (or other storage mechanism) to the line number. In other words, VMP 15 uses the line number to look up the visited subscriber's mailbox, and connects the call to the mailbox. Once connected, an announcement may be made to the caller as to the identity of the subscriber corresponding to the mailbox. If the visited subscriber is named "Navneet", then the announcement may state or otherwise present: "You have reached the mailbox of Navneet."
In addition to the identity announcement, the exemplary embodiment provides the caller with further information such as the option to backout of the call. Generally, a "backout" of a call is to have the call redirected away from the network element to which the call has been directed. In some cases, this redirection may mean that the network element to which the call has been directed "releases" the call, so that the call is redirected to another network element such as the element which originally directed the call to the network element. To provide information about the backout option, an exemplary announcement, after the identity presentation, may state or otherwise present: "If this is not the mailbox you intended to reach, then please press '*'." The pressing of the "*" touch-tone keypad of a telecommunications unit serves as an indicator that the caller desires to backout of the call. Effectively, the visiting subscriber 40 is presented with an opportunity to "backout" of interaction with the VMP 15 and to access a different messaging platform.
Alternatively, to exercise the option, the announcement may present the visiting subscriber with differing instructions to respond with a backout or other indicator. The indicator may be any signal from the caller that provides an indication to exercise the option of backing out of the call. As yet another alternative, once the call reaches the VMP 15, the caller may provide a backout indicator without any prompting or announcement from the VMP 15. In this example, the caller provides the backout indicator in the call that is routed from the visiting subscriber 40 through SSP 12 b to the VMP 15. See arrow 6.
The VMP 15 receives the backout indicator, and in response, provides a backout notice that is routed through the SSP 12 b to the INE 42. See arrows 7 and 8. The backout notice may be the same as the backout indicator. Alternatively, the backout notice may be some code that informs the elements of the messaging system that the call is to be released from VMP 15. As a result of the release, the call may be transferred to another network element such as a messaging platform other than the VMP 15. At this point, the VMP 15 may be released or drop out of the call path, so that the call is connected from the equipment of the different subscriber to the SSP12 b, but not to the VMP 15.
The backout notice provides notice to the INE 42 that the caller desires to access a messaging platform other than VMP 15. For example, the caller desires to access his or her SMP 17. To provide instructions on routing of the call, the INE 42 requires information in the form of the visiting subscriber's line number ("subscription number") or other identification such as mailbox or identity number. The INE 42 directs the SSP 12 b to obtain the number. See arrow 9. The SSP 12 b follows the directive by making a request to the caller for the number. See arrow 10. In response, the caller provides the number. See arrow 11. In turn, the SSP 12 b provides the number to the INE 42. See arrow 12.
In response to receiving the number, the INE 42 determines which messaging platform serves the number. The INE 42 then obtains an address such as the address of the SMP 17 and provides the SSP 12 b with further instructions including the address of the SMP 17. See arrow 13. These further directions may include a directive to use the address to route the call to the SMP 17. Alternatively, these further instructions may direct the SSP 12 b to present the address of the SMP 17 to the call. For example, the address may be the directory number of the SMP 17. After the directory number of the SMP 17 has been presented by the SSP 12 b to the caller, then the caller may call the SMP 17 himself or herself.
As yet another alternative, the further instructions may direct the SSP 12 b to further route the call to the SMP 17 and to present the address of the SMP 17 to the caller. Additional or alternative information may be presented to the caller with respect to the address of the SMP 17 so that the caller may make use of the address of the SMP 17 to retrieve messages, redirect messages, etc.
In response to receiving the further instructions, in the example of FIG. 2, the SSP 12 b routes the call so that it is transmitted through SSP 12 c to VMP 17. See arrow 14.
Advantageously, this exemplary method provides the particular subscriber ultimately with access to his or her SMP 17 even though the particular subscriber used the pilot number to make the call on the line number of the different subscriber resulting in the call being initially routed to the VMP 15 before being routed ultimately to the SMP 17.
In the example of FIG. 2, the visiting subscriber made a call to a pilot number, and this pilot number is commonly used by all subscribers of the messaging system 10 desiring to make an administrative call. Nonetheless, the exemplary embodiments may be made to operate with a messaging system that does not use a common pilot number. Assume for example, the visiting subscriber 40 is provided with a pilot number for his or her administrative calls, and the subscriber ("Navneet") whose equipment the visiting subscriber 40 is using is provided with a pilot number. The visiting subscriber 40 may obtain the different pilot number from Navneet to make an administrative call from Naveneet's equipment. The visiting subscriber may exercise the backout option in generally the same manner using Navneet's pilot number (rather than his or her own pilot number) so as to access the subscription messaging platform of the visiting subscriber.
FIG. 3 is a timing diagram or call flow illustrating another exemplary method of the present inventions. A visiting subscriber ("Carl") makes a pilot call to a messaging platform for the retrieval of messages. In this example, Carl is using the equipment of another subscriber ("Navneet"). The equipment is connected to a line having a directory number (DN) (line number) of 3302222. Referring to FIG. 3, in action 302, Carl dials the pilot number of 2224444. The resulting Integrated Services Digital Network User Part (ISUP) message includes the call destination as the pilot number and the line number as the number of Navneet.
The call encounters a specific digits string ("SDS") trigger provisioned with respect to the pilot number on the SSP serving the line number on which the call is made. The SDS trigger causes the SSP, in action 304, to launch a query to an INE such as an SCP. The query is a transactional capabilities application part (TCAP) Info_Analyzed query, which includes the called number (i.e., the pilot number) and the calling number (Navneet's directory number).
The INE, in response to the query, accesses a table (or other information compilation) in its subscriber database (and/or in a directory such as the RMD), to determine the appropriate destination for the call. The INE recognizes the call as a call to a messaging platform based on the use of the pilot number as the called number. The INE uses the calling number to determine the address of the appropriate messaging platform to which the call is to be routed.
FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary SCP table 400 as may be used to determine the address of the appropriate messaging platform. The SCP table 400 includes two columns of information: (1) a calling party column 410; and (2) a destination address parameter ("DAP") column 420. DAP may be a directory number, a point code, or even an internet protocol (IP) address. The information in the entries that span the columns is coordinated. The DAP column 420 stores a directory number used in office translations to identify the SS7 trunks terminating to the messaging platform for the corresponding subscriber, mailbox, or other number. Pursuant to the example described in FIG. 3, the calling number is 3302222, which corresponds to a DAP of VMS 1 (i.e., the address is that of VMS 1).
Referring again to FIG. 3, in action 306 the INE includes the address of the VMS of Navneet in a response to the SSP's query that directs the SSP to route the call to VMS of Navneet. The response from the INE is an TCAP-STR-IP[DestAddr=2225555] message. (STR=send to resource; IP=intelligent peripheral; and DestAddr=destination address). In action 307, the SSP routes the call to the VMS of Navneet and sends along the calling number and the messaging platform number or address (the DAP received from the SCP). The SSP uses an ISUP IAM message having a call destination of 2225555 (the VMS of Navneet) and a calling line number of 3302222 (Navneet's line number).
The VMS of Navneet uses the calling number to access the mailbox of Navneet. The VMS of Navneet is programmed to play a greeting to the caller (in this example, Carl). The greeting indicates the name assigned to the accessed mailbox. For example: "You have reached the mailbox of Navneet." The greeting also provides information to Carl on how to exercise backout of the mailbox by pressing a key such as "*".
In action 308, Carl elects to backout of the mailbox of Navneet by providing the appropriate indication. The VMS of Navneet collects the audio digits (such as "*") from the caller. In response to the backout indication, in action 310, the VMS of Navneet sends an 1129 encoded message to the SSP serving the line number of Navneet. The RO parameter of the message is modified to include an operation type, which may be defined as "backout notice" or "administrative backout", or similar identifier. The message is an ISUP REL [RO(OperType-Backout)] message. (REL=release; RO=remote operations). The use of the operation type in the RO parameter of the message is notice that the caller desires to backout of the call as routed to the VMS1, and perhaps to access a different mailbox, and/or an altogether different messaging platform.
In response to receipt of the message from the VMS of Navneet, the SSP engages in a query/response exchange with the SCP by transmitting a message to the SCP. As before, the message includes the modified RO parameter identifying the call as an administrative backout call. The message is a TCAP release complete RelComp [RO(OperType=Backout)] message. In action 313, the SCP provides the SSP with a "play-and-collect" message which instructs the SSP to play an announcement to the caller to obtain the caller's mailbox number, which typically is the subscriber number, or to obtain any other selected number provided by the caller. The SSP follows the instructions, collects the digits from the Carl, and forwards the digits to the SCP.
Next, the SCP searches the appropriate information source such as a database, table, and/or the directory (RMD) to determine the DAP for the messaging platform serving the number provided by the caller. For example, the SCP may search the aforementioned SCP table 400 illustrated in FIG. 4. Once the SCP obtains the DAP for the messaging platform serving the number provided by the caller, the SCP, in action 314, provides the SSP with an 1129 message. This message includes the collected digits in the RO parameter. This is a TCAP STR-IP[DestAddr=3303333, Cg=3302222, RO(SubsDN=3306666)] message. Alternatively, the SCP may place the collected digits in the calling number parameter. By this message, the SCP instructs the SSP to route the call to the messaging platform serving the number as provided by Carl.
In action 316, the SSP then routes the call to the message platform of Carl (VMS2). This routing includes an ISUP IAM[Cd=3303333, CG=3302222,RO(SubsDN=3306666)] message. Upon connection, the messaging platform (VMS2) uses the number provided by Carl to determine which mailbox on the platform to access. Once the mailbox has been accessed, the caller may hear an announcement as to the identity associated with the mailbox such as "You have reached the mailbox of Carl". This greeting provides Carl with assurance that he has reached the mailbox desired. On the other hand, this mailbox may not be or may no longer be the mailbox desired to be accessed by Carl. In that case, Carl may repeat the process of backing out of this call and having it redirected to a messaging platform serving a number as provided by Carl. The repeat of the backing out may follow generally the same actions as followed in the backout of Carl's call from Navneet's messaging platform to Carl's messaging platform. Advantageously, Carl uses a pilot number for an administrative call to the messaging system, and Carl is able to select which messaging platform to be connected to for retrieval of messages or other functions.
Given the foregoing disclosure of the exemplary embodiments of the present inventions, other embodiments will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art. Therefore, the scope of the present inventions is to be limited only by the claims below.
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Owner name: BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION, DELAW
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|Sep 30, 2011
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Nov 22, 2011
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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Loteria PrimitivaPlaza De Colon E-28830 Internet Spain
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