Patent ID: 6950508
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for providing away-from-home calling service in which a subscriber makes a telephone call from a subscriber telephone; comprising: a switch coupled to the subscriber telephone on which a trigger is provisioned to intercept telephone calls intending to use the calling service; a service control point coupled to the switch provisioned to receive authentication information from the switch, wherein the authentication information is entered by the subscriber through a telephone keypad; a line database storing authentication information and services information associated with the authentication information regarding home telephone services provisioned on the subscriber's home telephone line, wherein after the service control point acquires the authentication information from the subscriber through the switch, the service control point performs a look-up of the received authentication information within the line database to find the authentication information and the associated services information stored in the line database, and provides the information regarding the home telephone services that is found by the look-up to the switch if the received authentication information and the authentication information obtained from the line database matches, and wherein the switch completes the telephone call using the telephone services provisioned on the subscriber's home telephone line returned to the switch.