Patent ID: 6879676

Claim:
A method for routing a call from a calling party to a called party comprising: receiving the call intended for the called party at a service switching point; querying a service control point for instructions to route the call; providing X-Y coordinates of the calling party to a GIS system; obtaining a menu of choices with an associated list of forwarding telephone numbers of the called party from the GIS system, wherein the forwarding telephone number is found by the GIS system based on the X-Y coordinates of the calling party and is provided to the service control point; presenting the calling party with the menu of choices from the GIS system through the service control point; receiving from the calling party a selection based on the menu of choices; providing the selection to the service control point; sending based on the selection a call routing instruction from the service control point to the service switch point; and routing the call based on the call routing instruction to a location associated with the forwarding telephone number associated with the selection.