Patent ID: 7945039
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. In a telephone network comprising an Operator Services Switch (OSS), a call processing method comprising: receiving a call from a calling party received on a trunk connected to the OSS, wherein the trunk is coupled to a wireless service provider; determining at the OSS using both a called party number and a trunk identifier of the trunk that a request message should be generated; sending the request message from the OSS to a service control point database, wherein the request message indicates at least a mobile directory number of the calling party and a first indicia; examining the first indicia of the request message in the service control point database to determine an address of a second database; sending a second request message including the mobile directory number from the service control point database to the second database; selecting a service script from a plurality of service scripts in the second database based in part on the mobile directory number; indicating the selected service script from the second database to the service control point database by conveying a first response message comprising a service script identifier from the second database; and sending a second response message from the service control point database to the OSS for routing the call to provide an announcement to the calling party.