Patent ID: 7107353

Claim:
A method for determining a fundamental route between two locations in a network, comprising: receiving a request for service between locations in the network; receiving location information associated with the locations; correlating the location information to a respective carrier identification code, wherein the carrier identification code corresponds to a particular signal route from at least one location to another location in the network; generating the fundamental route from the set of signal routes between the locations based upon one or more fundamental route criteria, wherein generating a set of signal routes comprises: determining one or more sub-locations between two locations in the network; and correlating a sub-location to a respective carrier identification code, wherein each carrier identification code corresponds to a particular signal route from at least one sub-location to either another sub-location or a location in the network; and selecting the fundamental route from the set of signal routes, wherein selecting the fundamental route comprises: assigning a priority value to each signal route in the set of signal routes; comparing the priority value of each signal route, wherein at least one priority value designates the fundamental route.