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

Claim 11:
12. A method for operating a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
receiving an incoming communication, from an end office, at an application server for receiving communications from a plurality of telecommunication networks, the 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 associated with the dialed telephone number;
receiving a data schema associated with the dialed telephone number, wherein the data schema includes two or more CICs associated with the dialed telephone number;
analyzing the data schema;
determining one of the two or more CICs to associate with the dialed telephone number based on the analysis of two or more factors in the data schema including at least load balancing across two or more of the plurality of telecommunication networks;
associating the determined CIC with the incoming communication;
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.