Patent ID: 6393112
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A system for processing calls in a telecommunications system, comprising:a call context database; an intelligent telecommunications network coupled to said call context database; a plurality of network elements incorporated in said intelligent telecommunications network, each network element operative to generate call context data; a network call identifier related to a call within said telecommunications system; storage means associated with said call context data and operative to store said call context data and said network call identifier therein; retrieval means operative to retrieve said call context data from said call context database based on said network call identifier; and a processor operative to process said call in accordance with said call context data, wherein said call context database is distributed among a plurality of cooperating call context database management systems that are coupled to the intelligent telecommunications network, and wherein each cooperating call context database management system of the plurality of call context database management systems manages a subset of the call context database, the subset of the call context database corresponding to a range of network call identifiers.