Patent ID: 9119138
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06Q,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device, comprising: receiving, at a computing device of an end user, a request to initiate a telecommunication session for the end user; submitting, in response to receiving the request and to one or more access points for one or more respective telecommunication carriers that operate the access points, a proposal for a telecommunication session, the proposal including one or more requirements for the telecommunication session, the requirements specifying particular expected technical characteristics that will be needed for the telecommunication session; receiving, at the computing device and from at least one of the one or more telecommunication carriers, one or more bids to carry the telecommunications session at a level of service that meets or exceeds the one or more requirements, the one or more bids being made in response to, and at a time of receipt of, the request to initiate the telecommunication session; and automatically selecting, by the computing device of the end user, one of the telecommunications carriers based on the one or more bids, and initiating the telecommunication session through the selected telecommunication carrier at a time when the request to initiate the telecommunication session was received.