Patent ID: 7376419

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an originating mobile switching center that handles one or more cells; a serving mobile switching center coupled to the originating mobile switching center, wherein the serving mobile switching center for a communication device on a call of the one or more calls passes control of the call to the originating mobile switching center; and a service node coupled to the originating mobile switching center, wherein the originating mobile switching center triggers the call to the service node, and wherein the service node sends an initial trigger response to the originating mobile switching center that instructs the originating mobile switching center to redirect the call, and wherein the initial trigger response arms one or more triggers that support one or more services for the communication device; and wherein the one or more triggers comprise one or more of one or more switch based triggers and one or more subscriber based triggers exclusive of Calling_Routing_Addresss_Available, OAnswer, and ODisconnect triggers; and wherein the one or more subscriber based triggers comprise one or more of Origination_Attempt_Authorized, Collected_Information, and Analyzed_Information triggers; and wherein the originating mobile switching center encounters the one or more subscriber based triggers prior to the Calling_Routing_Addresss_Available trigger; and wherein upon receipt of the initial trigger response, the originating mobile switching center encounters at least one of the one or more triggers and triggers the call to one or more other service nodes.