Patent ID: 8311538
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for resolving a Telephone Number (TN) of a mobile device, comprising: (a) receiving at a first gateway a query request from a query entity, the query request comprising the TN, wherein the request is received by means of other than Signaling System 7 (SS7) and is received at a node having both SS7 facing elements and non-SS7 facing elements; (b) constructing an SS7 SendRoutingInformation (SRI) request message, the SS7 SRI request message comprising the TN; (c) sending the SS7 SRI request message via one of the SS7 facing elements; (d) receiving at a second gateway an SS7 SRI response message; (e) performing one or more processing steps on the SS7 SRI response message, including at least developing an indicator of the wireless carrier that services the TN; (f) constructing a query response, the query response comprising the indicator of the wireless carrier that services the TN; and (g) sending the query response to the query entity via one of the non-SS7 facing elements.