Patent ID: 8693651
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method to authorize an outdial communication service call, the method comprising: parsing a request to obtain input criteria associated with the request, the request for authorizing the outdial communication service call initiated by a message center; retrieving authorization rules correlating the input criteria to an authorization result for the outdial communication service call, the input criteria comprising a first input criterion having one of at least two values, a first value indicating that the outdial communication service call is for a real-time outdial service initiated in response to an indial communication service received at the message center, a second value indicating that the outdial communication service call is for a non-real-time outdial service initiated by an application server associated with the message center; and evaluating the authorization rules using the input criteria to determine whether the outdial communication service call is authorized.