Patent ID: 7649862

Claim:
A flexible through-connection process, operational in a Mobile Switch Center that contains a call control processor and a call routing processor, for making a through-connection to a destination at different stages of the call connection, comprising: means, responsive to receipt of an incoming call at a Mobile Switch Center, for determining whether a called mobile subscriber station identified in said incoming call is provisioned to receive services from an external server for said incoming call, comprising: means for transmitting a query to a Home Location Register of said Mobile Switch Center requesting pre-provisioned information of said called mobile subscriber station; and means, responsive to said incoming call being provisioned to receive services from an external server, for transmitting data at call setup time from said call control processor to said call routing processor indicative of a set of conditions under which said call routing processor, independent of said call control processor, performs a through-connection to said called mobile subscriber station and a set of conditions under which said call routing processor, independent of said call control processor performs a through connection to said external server followed by a switch connection to one of said called mobile subscriber station and an alternate destination pursuant to satisfaction of one of said set of conditions during the processing of said incoming call, comprising: means, responsive to receipt of pre-provisioned information of said called mobile subscriber station indicative of said called mobile subscriber station being provisioned to receive services from an external server, for transmitting data from said call control processor to said call routing processor requesting said call routing processor to establish a call connection to said external server, and means for setting a through-connection indicator in said transmitted data to indicate a one of a through-connection and a switch-connection to be implemented during the processing of said incoming call upon occurrence of an associated condition.