Patent ID: 8824481

Claim:
A computer program product for a web service, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform operations comprising: encoding a session identifier into a uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with a Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) Begin message request originating at an application server within a telephone calling communication channel between a legacy telephone network and an internet protocol (IP) based telephone network, the session identifier to identify a communication session; transmitting the TCAP Begin message request from the application server to a transaction capabilities application part (TCAP) interface; receiving a TCAP Continue message request from the TCAP interface, the TCAP Continue message request comprising the URI; and correlating the TCAP Continue message request to the communication session that originated the request, identified by the session identifier encoded into the URI.