Patent ID: 8089977

Claim:
An apparatus including an interface processor for providing communication between first and second networks using disparate messaging protocols: in which an originating telephone transaction message having the first network messaging protocol is sent from an originator on the first network to the interface processor at an interface location between and exterior to the two networks, wherein the interface processor is constructed to: request subscriber information from a home registration database located on the second network; convert the first network messaging protocol of only the address information of the originating message into a second network messaging protocol suitable for the second network, without altering the remainder of the originating message contents; forward the converted originating message to the home registration database of the second network; receive a responding message from the second network, the responding message having the second network messaging protocol; and convert the second network messaging protocol of the responding message into the first network messaging protocol; and forward the converted responding message to the first network; and receiving the converted responding message at the first network, thereby facilitating communications between a home register database and a computer operable on said first network, so that authorization commands can be issued directly from said home register database to said computer on said first network.