Patent ID: 7885253

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting from a first telecommunications terminal a first request to a first database for an address of a first party in a telecommunications network; receiving at the first telecommunications terminal a first notification that the first database fails to comprise a mapping of an indicium of the first party to an address of the first party in the telecommunications network; transmitting from the first telecommunications terminal a second request to a second database for the address of the first party in the telecommunications network; receiving at the first telecommunications terminal a second notification that the second database does comprise a mapping of an indicium of the first party to an address of the first party in the telecommunications network; populating the first database with a mapping of an indicium of the first party to the address of the first party in the telecommunications network; transmitting from a second telecommunications terminal a third request to the second database for an address of a second party in the telecommunications network; receiving at the second telecommunications terminal a third notification that the second database fails to comprise a mapping of an indicium of the second party to an address of the second party in the telecommunications network; transmitting from the second telecommunications terminal a fourth request to a third database for the address of the second party in the telecommunications network; receiving at the second telecommunications terminal a fourth notification that the third database does comprise a mapping of an indicium of the second party to an address of the second party in the telecommunications network; and populating the second database with a mapping of an indicium of the second party to the address of the second party in the telecommunications network.