Patent ID: 8094798

Claim:
A telematics system for assigning a wireless telephone number to a vehicle telematics unit, the wireless telephone number conforming to a North American Numbering Plan, the system comprising: a database for storing available wireless telephone number inventory, wherein the inventory comprises a plurality of fields comprising a rate center field, an NPA field, and an NXX field, where the rate center field is selected from the group consisting of one or more of a local rate center, a non-local rate center, an in-state rate center, and an out-of-state rate center; and a server for receiving a provisioning request for assigning the wireless telephone number to the telematics unit, the server assigning a wireless telephone number from the inventory to the telematics unit by querying the database to identify the wireless telephone number by matching one or more of a customer's home rate center, a customer's NPA, a customer's NXX, and a customer's overlay NPA information to the plurality of fields in the inventory based on a plurality of predetermined conditions; wherein the server evaluates the plurality of predetermined conditions comprising determining whether the customer's NPA matches an NPA in the inventory corresponding to an in-state rate center which is non-local and separately determining whether the customer's overlay NPA matches an overlay NPA in the inventory corresponding to the in-state rate center which is non-local.