Patent ID: 8693982
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a plurality of data servers each configured to store account related data for mobile telephones of subscribers to wireless communication service provided by one wireless network operator, wherein each of the data servers is configured to by default store account related data for mobile telephones based on geographic areas corresponding to mobile telephone numbers (MTNs) assigned to the mobile telephones of subscribers; an Electronic Telephone number Inventory (eTNI) database configured to store an inventory of the wireless network operator's MTNs and subscribers' identifications (IDs) corresponding to the MTNs assigned to the mobile telephones of the subscribers and to locations among the plurality of data servers of subscribers account related data, wherein: (a) at least some of the account related data of one or more of the subscribers is located on one or more of the data servers based upon subscriber identification (ID) rather than a geographic area corresponding to MTNs, and (b) account data for multiple mobile telephones for a subscriber having multiple mobile telephones assigned MTNs corresponding to different ones of the geographic areas is consolidated, regardless of the geographic areas corresponding to the assigned MTNs, on one of the data servers under one subscriber ID assigned to the subscriber having the multiple mobile telephones; and a router configured to: receive a request for subscriber account data relating to a first MTN, the request including a subscriber ID corresponding to the first MTN obtained from the eTNI database without user interaction, and forward the request to a first one of the data servers corresponding to the subscriber ID included in the received request; and a terminal configured to: receive a user request requesting subscriber data relating to the first MTN; automatically obtain the subscriber ID from the eTNI database; automatically combine the user request with the subscriber ID to form the request including the subscriber ID; and automatically forward to the router the request including the subscriber ID corresponding to the first MTN, wherein: a geographic area of the terminal is different from a geographic area of the first data server; and the geographic areas of the terminal and data servers are categorized according to area codes of the MTNs.