Patent ID: 6466798
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
For use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), a system for automatically routing communications from a calling party having a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device to a secondary party having a single calling number for a plurality of CPE devices, each of said secondary party CPE devices placed at a different geographic location and having a corresponding communication address, the system comprising:an AIN Release 1 Service Switching Point (SSP) in electrical communication with said calling party CPE device and said plurality of secondary party CPE devices, and having Automatic Call Distribution architecture; a Signal transfer Point (STP) in electrical communication with said SSP; and an AIN Release 1 Service Control Point (SCP) in electrical communication with said STP, said SCP adapted to retain complete control of the routing of said communication and perform selected routing functions in a predetermined sequence in an attempt to locate said secondary party at one of said communication addresses, and to direct said SSP how to terminate said communication.