Patent ID: 7567661

Claim:
A method of accessing call-related information associated with telephony services implemented in a telephony network having a plurality of telephony network nodes serving a plurality of service subscribers, comprising: a) receiving from a subscriber terminal a request for the call-related information; b) sending a subscriber identification request for display at the subscriber terminal; c) receiving a response to the subscriber identification request including subscriber authentication data; d) converting at least a portion of the subscriber authentication data into a format compatible with the plurality of telephony network nodes serving the plurality of service subscribers, to provide converted subscriber authentication data; e) transmitting a request for at least a part of a service profile for a requesting service subscriber to a network node maintaining a database of service profiles, wherein the transmitted request includes the converted subscriber authentication data; f) receiving from the network node maintaining the database of service profiles, the at least a part of the service profile for the requesting service subscriber, to provide received service profile information; g) validating the subscriber authentication data; h) converting the request for call-related information into a format compatible with the plurality of telephony network nodes serving the plurality of service subscribers, to provide a converted call-related information request; i) transmitting the converted call-related information request to a telephony network node maintaining a log of call-related information for the requesting service subscriber; j) receiving at least a part of the log of call-related information for the requesting service subscriber from the telephony network node maintaining the log of call-related information for the requesting service subscriber, to provide a received log of call-related information; and k) transmitting the received log of call-related information to the subscriber terminal.