- Patent Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing telecommunications services between a session initiation protocol (SIP) network and a signaling system 7 (SS7) network
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Application No.: US12913735Application Date: 2010-10-27
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Publication No.: US08520828B2Publication Date: 2013-08-27
- Inventor: Seetharaman Khadri , Robby D. Benedyk , Vikram Nair
- Applicant: Seetharaman Khadri , Robby D. Benedyk , Vikram Nair
- Applicant Address: US NC Morrisville
- Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Morrisville
- Agency: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04M7/00
- IPC: H04M7/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing telecommunication services between a SIP network and an SS7 network are disclosed. In one method, SIP/SS7 gateway receives an INVITE message from a SIP proxy server. The SIP/SS7 gateway extracts a called party number from the INVITE message and determines whether a telecommunications service is required and a type of service required for the INVITE message based on the called party number. The SIP/SS7 gateway then formulates an SS7 query to a database corresponding to the identified service type. The SIP/SS7 gateway receives a response from the database and uses data from the response to facilitate completion of the call. In one example, the SIP/SS7 gateway may forward a routing number extracted from the response back to the originating SIP proxy server. In another example, the SIP/SS7 gateway may generate a new INVITE message and forward the new INVITE message to a terminating SIP proxy server. In yet another example, the SIP/SS7 gateway may formulate a second query to the same database or to a different database to obtain further information for facilitate completion of the call.
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