Patent ID: 8693667

Claim:
A method for processing a call request by a switch device, the method comprising: determining, by processing logic of the switch device, whether the call request is for a long distance call; processing, by the processing logic, the call request as a 12-digit telephone number when the call request is for a long distance call, the 12-digit telephone number including an area code and 9 digits after the area code, the 12-digit telephone number including a format of NXX+XXXX+XXXXX, N representing a value from 2 to 9 and X representing a value from 0 to 9; and processing, by the processing logic, the call request as a telephone number including less than 12 digits when the call request is not for a long distance call, processing the call request as a telephone number including less than 12 digits including: processing the call request as a 7-digit telephone number, processing the call request as an 8-digit telephone number, processing the call request as a 9-digit telephone number, or processing the call request as a 10-digit telephone number.