Patent ID: 7920529

Claim:
A mobile network data system that facilitates deployment of next generation services by leveraging legacy assets, comprising: a subscriber-related information source utilized within a legacy network to store user-subscription information for at least one of a call or a session, the subscriber-related information source employed as part of a logical database for a next generation network during deployment of the next generation services; and an intermediary query manager (IQM) component, implemented as part of the logical database in the next generation network, that interfaces to the subscriber-related information source by employing at least one of a C or D interface and facilitates interoperability between a legacy entity and a next generation entity by providing the subscription information to the next generation entity from the subscriber-related information source, wherein the next generation entity is at least one of a server, a gateway or a function within a next generation core network, and wherein the IQM component at least one of: receives at least one of an update location message or a registration message from at least one of a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) or Visitor Location Register (VLR), over a Signaling System 7 (SS7) network and forwards the at least one of the update location message or the registration message to the subscriber-related information source over the SS7 network to facilitate update of a user equipment's (UE's) location in the subscriber-related information source, or facilitates validation of the UE via communication with a next generation data repository and on validation, forwards a message received from a serving Mobile Switching Center (SMSC) to the subscriber-related information source to facilitate Short Message Service (SMS) communication between two or more UEs.