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System and Method for Gathering Information Related to a Geographical Location of a Callee in a Public Switched Telephone Network

  • US 20060270392A1
  • Filed: 08/03/2006
  • Published: 11/30/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data-gathering system, comprising:

  • a location server configured to receive an instruction having a telephone number from a service control point (SCP), wherein the telephone number is associated with an incoming telephone call to a callee on a public switched telephone network (PSTN), wherein the location server is further configured to correlate the telephone number to a geographical location in response to the received instruction, wherein the location server is further configured to transmit the correlated geographical location;

    an information server having information associated with a plurality of geographical locations, wherein the plurality of geographical locations includes the geographical location correlated to the telephone number; and

    a computer system configured to receive the transmitted geographical location from the location server, wherein the computer system is further configured to collect geographical location information from the information server, wherein the geographical location information is associated with the received geographical location.

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