Patent ID: 8155291

Claim:
A method comprising: facilitating connections of call offers within a telecommunications peering grid, wherein the facilitating includes: (a) receiving a call offer destined for a telephone number registered by a peering partner of the telecommunications peering grid, wherein registration by the peering partner allows for the telecommunications peering grid to route calls to the peering partner, (b) determining that the telephone number belongs to a first peering partner, (c) routing the call offer directly to the first peering partner, and (d) generating a call detail record regarding the call offer, the call detail record enriched with peering information, wherein steps (a) through (d) are repeated for a plurality of call offers for telephone numbers registered by the first peering partner; summarizing usage of the telecommunications peering grid by the first peering partner over a period of time, wherein the usage over the period of time relates to traffic through the telecommunications peering grid as a result of registration by the first peering partner; and calculating a payment to be provided to the first peering partner, based in part upon the summarized usage.