Patent ID: 6442267
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A telecommunications routing system that determines routing preferences and routes a call from a calling party to a called party for a local service provider, comprising:a switch that launches a trigger upon recognizing at least one of a calling party number and a dialed number that indicates a type of service; a service control point that, in response to receiving the trigger from the switch, and based upon the type of service and a local service provider identifier associated with the recognized calling party number or dialed number, determines the routing preferences of the local service provider for the call, the service control point forwarding the determined routing preferences to the switch; and a table that stores information determining whether the local service provider has a routing preference for the type of service indicated by the dialed number and associating routing preferences of the local service provider with types of service.