公开(公告)号：US5940493A

公开(公告)日：1999-08-17

申请号：US756442

申请日：1996-11-26

申请人： Nailesh B. Desai ,  Prasad V. Nimmagadda

发明人： Nailesh B. Desai ,  Prasad V. Nimmagadda

IPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/493 ,  H04M3/52

CPC分类号： H04M3/4931 ,  H04M3/42229

摘要： A system and method for providing directory assistance service and information in a multiple service provider and a local number portability environment. An operator services system (OPSS) (15) is functionally connected to a first and a second database (24, 26). Preferably, the first database (24) is a directory assistance database, and the second database (26) is a directory assistance-local number portability (DA-LNP) database. Upon receipt of a request for a directory number associated with the name of a party, the OPSS (15) makes a first query of the first database (24) for first search results relating to the name of the party. Preferably, the OPSS (15) also concurrently makes a second query, but of the second database (26) for second search results relating to the name of the party. The first and second databases are searched based on the name of the party. The first and second search results are provided to the OPSS (15). In response to receipt of the first and second search results, the OPSS (15) consolidates both search results into consolidated search results. Preferably, the OPSS (15) eliminates any duplicative entry between the first and second search results. The OPSS (15) then provides the consolidated search results to a display (21). The consolidated search results are displayed and are used to provide the directory assistance service in response to the request for the name of the party.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在多服务提供商和本地号码可移植性环境中提供目录辅助服务和信息的系统和方法。 操作员服务系统（OPSS）（15）在功能上连接到第一和第二数据库（24,26）。 优选地，第一数据库（24）是目录辅助数据库，并且第二数据库（26）是目录辅助本地号码可移植性（DA-LNP）数据库。 在接收到与一方的名称相关联的目录号码的请求时，OPSS（15）对与第一方的名称相关的第一搜索结果进行第一数据库（24）的查询。 优选地，OPSS（15）还同时进行第二查询，但是对于与该方名称相关的第二搜索结果，第二数据库（26）也是第二查询。 根据方的名称搜索第一和第二数据库。 第一和第二搜索结果提供给OPSS（15）。 响应收到第一和第二搜索结果，OPSS（15）将搜索结果合并到统一的搜索结果中。 优选地，OPSS（15）消除了第一和第二搜索结果之间的任何重复进入。 OPSS（15）然后将合并的搜索结果提供给显示器（21）。 合并的搜索结果被显示并用于响应于对方的名称的请求来提供目录协助服务。

公开(公告)号：US5815561A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-29

申请号：US626247

申请日：1996-03-29

申请人： Hong Nguyen ,  Nailesh B. Desai

发明人： Hong Nguyen ,  Nailesh B. Desai

IPC分类号： H04M17/00 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04M15/00

CPC分类号： H04M15/88 ,  H04M15/49 ,  H04M17/00 ,  H04Q3/0029 ,  H04M2215/0116 ,  H04M2215/46 ,  H04Q2213/1313

摘要： The present invention is a method and system for implementing service functions in association with a communication between an originating station and a called station. A communication including identification information is received at a first network element from the originating station. A transaction is opened for use in a bi-directional exchange of messages relating to the communication between the first network element and the second network element. The communication is held at the first network element while the identification information is sent from the first network element to the second network element. The second network element determines processing instructions for implementing the service functions. The second network element then sends the processing instructions to the first network element. The transaction is then closed. In response to receiving the processing message, the first network element routes the communication for connection from the originating station to the called station. The first network element then implements the service functions in accordance with the processing instructions. In a first embodiment, the present invention provides a method and system for charging the cost of a communication a prepaid account associated with a prepaid telephone card. In a second embodiment, the present invention provides a method and system for apprising the parties to a communication of the duration of the communication while the communication is in progress.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种与发起站和被叫站之间的通信相关联地实现业务功能的方法和系统。 在起始站的第一网元处接收包括识别信息的通信。 打开交易以用于与第一网络元件和第二网络元件之间的通信相关的消息的双向交换。 通信被保持在第一网元，同时将识别信息从第一网络元件发送到第二网络元件。 第二网络元件确定用于实现服务功能的处理指令。 然后，第二网元将处理指令发送到第一网元。 交易然后关闭。 响应于接收到处理消息，第一网络单元将通信从发起站路由到被叫站。 然后，第一网元根据处理指令实现服务功能。 在第一实施例中，本发明提供了一种用于计费与预付费电话卡相关联的预付费账户的通信费用的方法和系统。 在第二实施例中，本发明提供了一种用于在通信进行中通知通信持续时间的通信方的方法和系统。

公开(公告)号：US5533107A

公开(公告)日：1996-07-02

申请号：US204677

申请日：1994-03-01

申请人： Janine M. Irwin ,  James M. Seymour ,  Iris Y. Chen ,  James M. Davis ,  David C. Sowell ,  Nailesh B. Desai ,  Julia B. Torbert

发明人： Janine M. Irwin ,  James M. Seymour ,  Iris Y. Chen ,  James M. Davis ,  David C. Sowell ,  Nailesh B. Desai ,  Julia B. Torbert

IPC分类号： H04M3/523 ,  H04Q3/66 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M15/00

CPC分类号： H04Q3/66 ,  H04M2207/12 ,  H04M3/5237

摘要： The present invention is a method that enables a business with multiple locations within a LATA to use a single number for its service. All callers dial the same number to reach the subscriber's business, and a network routes the calls to the most appropriate subscriber location based on the geographic location of the caller, time of day, day of week, and/or percent distribution among subscriber locations. The geographic location of the caller is determined using the calling party number (NPA-NXX-XXXX) and either mapping this number to a wire center (using the NPA-NXX) or to a block group (using the entire NPA-NXX-XXXX). An advantage of Area Number Calling is the granularity of block group routing. Block groups are defined by the Census Bureau and typically encompass a much smaller geographic area than a wire center. Block groups are defined by the Census Bureau for the entire United States. Block groups tend to encompass four to twelve blocks, and they honor natural boundaries, like rivers. This gives an ANC subscriber a greater degree of flexibility in defining which geographic areas should be routed to which subscriber locations. The present invention also provides a method of reducing the amount of geographic data that is transmitted to or stored on a database associated with the routing equipment by routing as a unit intersecting regions of multiple subscriber data tables.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种能够在LATA内具有多个位置的业务对其服务使用单个数字的方法。 所有呼叫者拨打相同的号码以接收订户的业务，并且网络基于呼叫者的地理位置，时间，星期几和/或用户位置之间的百分比分布，将呼叫路由到最合适的用户位置。 使用主叫方号码（NPA-NXX-XXXX）确定呼叫者的地理位置，并将该号码映射到有线中心（使用NPA-NXX）或块组（使用整个NPA-NXX-XXXX ）。 区号调用的优点是块组路由的粒度。 块组由人口普查局定义，通常包含比电线中心小得多的地理区域。 统计组由美国人口普查局确定。 块组往往包含四至十二个块，它们符合自然界，如河流。 这使得ANC订户在定义哪些地理区域应被路由到哪个订户位置时具有更大的灵活性。 本发明还提供了一种通过路由作为与多个用户数据表的区域相交的单元来减少发送到或存储在与路由设备相关联的数据库上的地理数据量的方法。

公开(公告)号：US5850432A

公开(公告)日：1998-12-15

申请号：US748289

申请日：1996-11-13

申请人： Nailesh B. Desai ,  Richard C. Schmidt

发明人： Nailesh B. Desai ,  Richard C. Schmidt

IPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M7/06 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04M17/02 ,  H04Q3/00

CPC分类号： H04M17/02 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04Q3/0029

摘要： A method and system of utilizing advanced intelligent network services for capturing and recording dial-around call information is provided. Dial-around calls are calls directed to a telecommunication services provider other than the services provider designated by the owner or operator of the originating telecommunications device, such as a pay telephone. When a public switched telephone network effects a "dial-around" of a pre-subscribed telecommunication services provider at a pay telephone, accounting records generated by the local telecommunication services provider do not identify that the call originated at a pay telephone. Thus, important billing and asset management data are lost to the pay telephone operator. The method and system of the present invention utilize advanced intelligent network services to recognize dial-around calls and to produce a record for the pay telephone operator which will identify and record billing and utilization information for dial-around calls. The method and system may be used without the need for expensive and time consuming hardware and software retrofit of each local switch through which each pay telephone operator operates.

摘要翻译： 提供了利用先进的智能网络服务来捕获和记录拨号呼叫信息的方法和系统。 拨号呼叫是指向电信服务提供商而不是由始发电信设备的所有者或运营商指定的服务提供商的呼叫，例如付费电话。 当公共交换电话网络在付费电话上实现预订电信服务提供商的“拨号”时，由本地电信服务提供商产生的会计记录不能识别出在付费电话上的呼叫。 因此，重要的计费和资产管理数据丢失给付费电话运营商。 本发明的方法和系统利用高级智能网服务来识别拨号呼叫，并为付费电话运营商生成一个记录，用于识别和记录拨号呼叫的计费和利用信息。 可以使用该方法和系统，而不需要每个付费电话运营商操作的每个本地交换机的昂贵且耗时的硬件和软件改装。

公开(公告)号：US5748717A

公开(公告)日：1998-05-05

申请号：US684450

申请日：1996-07-19

申请人： Jim H. Chan ,  Nailesh B. Desai

发明人： Jim H. Chan ,  Nailesh B. Desai

IPC分类号： H04M15/16 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04Q3/66 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04M15/06

CPC分类号： H04M15/745 ,  H04M15/49 ,  H04Q3/005 ,  H04Q3/66 ,  H04M2215/0108 ,  H04M2215/46 ,  H04M3/42297

摘要： A method and system 11 for quickly changing a subscriber's long distance or local carrier while allowing the subscriber to maintain the same directory number. A preferred carrier code is entered into an interim carrier database 42, 43, and an indicator is activated for communications originating on the subscriber's line 14a. When a communication originating on the subscriber's line 14a is subsequently received, the carrier-of-record code is retrieved from a subscriber database 44, and the preferred carrier code is retrieved from the interim carrier database 42, 43. The preferred carrier code is compared to the carrier-of-record code. If the preferred carrier code is different than the carrier-of-record code, the preferred carrier code is used to assign the communication to the preferred carrier. At a later time, the carrier-of-record code in the subscriber database 44 is updated with the subscriber's preferred carrier code. When it is determined that the subscriber's carrier-of-record code is the same as the preferred carrier code, the indicator for the subscriber's line is removed. Once the indicator is removed, the interim carrier database 42, 43 is no longer referenced in the course of routing communications originating on the subscriber's line 14a, and the subscriber's preferred carrier code may be deleted from the interim carrier database 42, 43.

摘要翻译： 一种方法和系统11，用于在允许用户保持相同目录号码的同时快速改变用户的长途或本地载波。 优选的载波码被输入到临时载波数据库42,43中，并且对于在用户线路14a上发起的通信，激活指示符。 当随后接收到起始于用户线路14a的通信时，从用户数据库44检索记录载体代码，并从临时载波数据库42,43检索优选的载波代码。比较优选的载波码 到代码载体。 如果优选的载波代码不同于记录载体代码，则优选的载波代码用于将通信分配给优选的载波。 稍后，订户数据库44中的记录载体代码被用户的优选载波代码更新。 当确定订户的载波载波代码与优选载波代码相同时，用户线的指示符被去除。 一旦指示符被移除，则在路由从用户线路14a发送的通信的过程中不再引用临时载波数据库42,43，并且可以从临时载波数据库42,43中删除用户的优选载波代码。