Patent ID: 7536183

Claim:
A method operative to assist in a termination of a call when an originating mobile switching center (MSC) based on a first standard requests the location of a subscriber that is associated with a home location register (HLR) that is based on a second standard, the method comprising: receiving a location request in a first standard format from the originating MSC; generating a location request in a second standard format based on the received location request; transmitting the generated location request to the HLR; receiving a location request acknowledgement in the second standard format from the HLR; generating a location request acknowledgement in the first standard format based on the received location request acknowledgement; transmitting the generated location request acknowledgement to the originating MSC; receiving a call redirection request in the second standard format from a serving MSC; generating a call redirection request in the first standard format based on the received call redirection request; transmitting the generated call redirection request to the originating MSC; receiving a call redirection information request in the first standard format from the originating MSC; generating a call redirection information request in the second standard format based on the received call redirection information request; transmitting the generated call redirection information request to the HLR; receiving a call redirection information request acknowledgement in the second standard format from the HLR; generating a call redirection information request acknowledgement in the first standard format based on the call redirection information request acknowledgement in the second standard format received from the HLR; and, transmitting the generated call redirection information request acknowledgement to the originating MSC.