Patent ID: 6968047

Claim:
A method for comparing services provided by an incumbent local exchange carrier (“ILEC”) to its customer and services provided by the ILEC to a customer of a competitive local exchange carrier (“CLEC”), comprising: receiving ILEC data for a first transaction where the ILEC provided a first service to its customer; receiving CLEC data for a second transaction where the ILEC provided a second service to the customer of the CLEC; identifying a plurality of ILEC performance measurements for the first transaction; identifying a plurality of CLEC performance measurements for the second transaction; comparing the ILEC performance measurements to said CLEC performance measurements to determine if parity exists between the first service and the second service; if parity does not exist, then calculating a remedy to be paid; wherein parity is responsive to a parity probability representing a probability that parity is determined when favoritism actually exists and a favoritism probability representing a probability that favoritism is determined when parity actually exists, the method further comprising: calculating a balancing critical value that balances the parity probability and the favoritism probability; and comparing the different measurement to the balancing critical value.