Patent ID: 7616954

Claim:
A system for redirecting roaming traffic associated with a subscriber, the subscriber having profile information, the system comprising: means for retrieving a first transaction ID by passively monitoring a registration message intended for a home location information database, and for retrieving a second transaction ID by passively monitoring an update message originating from the home location information database; and means for sending an abort message to the home location information database with the second transaction ID as a Destination Transaction ID (DTID) to restrict any further transactions with the home location information database using the second transaction ID, and for sending a registration response message to a visited location information database with the first transaction ID as the DTID to restrict the subscriber from registering with the visited location information database, based on the subscriber's profile information stored in a database associated with the home location information database; wherein the retrieving means further recaptures the first transaction ID, sent as the DTID in the update message originating from the home location information database, to correlate the recaptured first transaction ID with the first transaction ID retrieved from the registration message.