Patent ID: 6639976
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
A method for comparing services provided by an incumbent local exchange carrier (â€œILECâ€ ) to its customer and services provided by the ILEC to a customer of a competitive local exchange carrier (â€œCLECâ€ ), comprising:receiving ILEC data for a first transaction where the ILEC provided a first service to its customer; receiving CLEC data for a second transaction where the ILEC provided a second service to the customer of the CLEC; identifying a plurality of ILEC performance measurements for the first transaction; identifying a plurality of CLEC performance measurements for the second transaction; identifying a plurality of related pairs of performance measurements from the ILEC performance measurements and the CLEC performance measurements, each related pair including related ILEC performance measurements and related CLEC performance measurements; for each related pair, comparing the related ILEC performance measurements and the related CLEC performance measurements to determine a difference measurement; determining an aggregate difference measurement; determining a balancing critical value; comparing the aggregate difference measurement to the balancing critical value to compare the services provided by the ILEC to its customer to the services provided by the ILEC to the customer of the CLEC.