Patent ID: 9276862
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A telephony network traffic throttle and rate deck synchronization system, comprising: at least one processor coupled to a memory and in communication with rate deck and subscriber repositories; a rate deck generator coupled to the at least one processor and configured to generate (a) a new rate deck that includes an effective time, an expiration time, and a plurality of rate costs per unit time for forwarding call routing requests to respective destination numbering plan areas/local number prefixes (NPAs/NXXs), and (b) and an access uniform resource locater (URL) for the new rate deck; a hash generator coupled to the at least one processor and configured to generate, and store in at least one of the rate deck and subscriber repositories, a unique rate deck file hash; the rate deck generator further configured to identify in the subscriber repository, subscribers having at least one assigned current rate deck in the rate deck repository to be replaced by the new rate deck; the rate deck generator further configured to modify an expiration time of the at least one assigned current rate deck to antedate the effective time; and the hash generator configured to generate a unique subscriber rate deck hash for each identified subscriber, and to embed at least the unique subscriber rate deck hash into the access URL.