SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS USING SHORT CODE DIALING
First Claim
1. A public switched telephone network routing system comprising:
- at least one detection circuitry for determining telephone network calling connections to a called party initiated using as a prefix and discriminating sequence, a unique combination of non-number dialed digits;
circuitry responsive to receipt of dialed digits pertaining to a detected calling connection having said unique combination of non-number dialed digits for accepting an expected number of dialed digits pertaining to said calling connection, said expected number of dialed digits being less than a full compliment of dialed digits required to complete a calling connection to said called party; and
circuitry for enabling said full compliment of digits to be supplied to said telephone network so that said calling connection can be completed through said telephone network to said called party.
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Abstract
By establishing double star short dialing codes (short codes) a party may have assigned to it a two, three, four or five digit name or number that is easy to remember because it has only a few numbers. When that number is dialed, the number is directed to a special translator that translates the short code to the full number, or to a series of called numbers, for subsequent routing through the telephone network. Because of the shortage on the numbering plan, the short code is indicated to the telephone network by the calling user dialing a unique prefix combination of non-numeric digits. In one embodiment, a control digit within the short code indicates to the system also the length of the short code. In this manner, variable length short numbers can be utilized for telephone or SMS messaging routing purposes, thus expanding the existing dial plan for the short number purposes.
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22 Claims
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1. A public switched telephone network routing system comprising:
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at least one detection circuitry for determining telephone network calling connections to a called party initiated using as a prefix and discriminating sequence, a unique combination of non-number dialed digits; circuitry responsive to receipt of dialed digits pertaining to a detected calling connection having said unique combination of non-number dialed digits for accepting an expected number of dialed digits pertaining to said calling connection, said expected number of dialed digits being less than a full compliment of dialed digits required to complete a calling connection to said called party; and circuitry for enabling said full compliment of digits to be supplied to said telephone network so that said calling connection can be completed through said telephone network to said called party. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of competing calls in a telephone system in which calls are routed from a calling station to a called station under control of digits dialed from said calling station, said digits representative of a pre-established numeric telephone number having a fixed number N of numeric digits, said method comprising:
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detecting a calling station short code dialed called number containing a specific combination of non-numeric dialed digits as well as numeric digits representative of a called station, said detected numeric digits being less than N; and sending said detected short code number to at least one short code translation table separate from a translation table used for INWATS translation such that a telephone connection can be established from said calling station to said called station under control of said detected short code dialed number. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for using short code dialing in a telephone network, said method comprising:
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routing calls from a calling station to a called station or to a series of called numbers under control of a fixed length calling number pre-assigned to said called station, said fixed length being N numeric digits; and routing calls from a calling station to a called station under control of a short code number dialed from said calling station, said short-code identified by a pre-assigned combination on non-numeric digits in said dialed number. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for using short code dialing in a telephone network, said method comprising:
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routing calls from a calling station to a called station or to a series of called stations under control of a fixed length calling number pre-assigned to said called station, said fixed length being N numeric digits; and routing calls from a calling station to a called station under control of a short code number dialed from said calling station, said short-code identified by a pre-assigned combination on non-numeric digits in said dialed number, said short code routing comprising; translating between a received short code and a corresponding fixed length pre-assigned number of said called station under control of a database maintained independent of said telephone network by a short code provider. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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