Patent ID: 11936804
Assignee: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A telecommunications network comprising:
at least one application server for receiving communications from a plurality of telecommunication networks, the at least one application server comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform the operations of:
receiving, from an end office, an incoming communication comprising a dialed telephone number associated with a client of the telecommunications network and without a carrier identification code (CIC);
obtaining the dialed telephone number from the incoming communication;
requesting information from a CIC data source;
receiving a data schema associated with the dialed telephone number;
analyzing the data schema;
determining a CIC to associate with the dialed telephone number based on the analysis of the data schema, wherein the determined CIC is determined based on two or more factors in the data schema including at least load balancing across two or more of the plurality of telecommunication networks;
identifying a destination device of the client of the telecommunication network based at least on the dialed telephone number and the determined CIC, the destination device in communication with at least one of the plurality of telecommunication networks; and
transmitting the incoming communication to the destination device of the client of the telecommunication network through the at least one of the plurality of telecommunication networks.