RECONCILING ADDRESSES

• US 20110238619A1
• Filed: 03/23/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Chatterjee, Sutap, John, Josy
• Granted Patent: US 9,443,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/609
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A device may include a memory, line cards, and a processor. The memory may include an address database for storing sub-location addresses. The line cards may be configured to communicate with other devices. The processor may be configured to receive a request to reconcile physical addresses from a network device, retrieve sub-location addresses from the database based on the request, determine whether each of the sub-location addresses can be deleted from the database based on association between the sub-location address and a physical device, and, for each of the sub-location addresses, delete the sub-location address from the database based on the determination.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory including an address database for storing sub-location addresses; and

a processor configured to;

receive a request to reconcile physical addresses from a network device;

retrieve sub-location addresses from the database based on the request;

determine whether each of the sub-location addresses is to be deleted from the database based on an association between the sub-location address and a physical device; and

delete one or more of the sub-location address from the database based on the determinations.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein each of the list of sub-location addresses includes a supplemental address.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein when determining whether each of the sub-location addresses is to be deleted from the database, the processor is further configured to:

for each of the sub-location addresses, when the sub-location address has an account history, reassign a user account associated with the sub-location address to a corresponding basic address.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor, to determine whether each of the sub-location addresses is to be deleted from the database, the processor is further configured to:

send a message to an external database that tracks whether the physical device is currently associated with the sub-location address, the message requesting the external database to allow or deny a deletion of the sub-location address from the address database.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to:

perform a rollback when the external database denies the deletion of the sub-location address.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to:

include, in a report, a list of sub-location addresses for which the external database denies deletion.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to provide an operator with appropriate privileges for deleting sub-location addresses or generating a report when the operator logs into the device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to generate at least one of:

a deleted address report;

an address deletion failure report;

or

a location standard exceeded report.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to enforce a sub-location address creation standard.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to allow creation of less than a threshold number of sub-location addresses for which there is no predefined standard.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive, from a user, a format for creating sub-location address in the first database.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive a list of wire centers for the address reconciliation.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to limit a number of scheduled wire centers for which the address reconciliation is to be performed per unit time.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the request to reconcile physical addresses includes one of:

a request to delete sub-location addresses;

or

a request to reassign user accounts associated with sub-location addresses to corresponding basic addresses and delete the sub-location addresses.

15. A method comprising:

receiving a request to reconcile physical addresses from a network device;

obtaining sub-location addresses from a database based on a list of wire centers specified in the request;

determining whether each of the sub-location addresses can be deleted from the database based on whether a telephone line is associated with the sub-location address;

deleting at least some of the sub-location addresses based on the determinations; and

generating a report listing deleted sub-location addresses.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining includes:

sending, to a device, a request to determine whether the telephone line can be reassigned from a sub-location address to a corresponding basic address.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining includes:

determining whether a sub-location address has an account history.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving the list of wire centers for reconciling physical addresses,

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying an error when a number of the wire centers exceeds a threshold.

20. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for causing a processing device to:

receive a list of wire centers for address reconciliation;

obtain sub-location addresses from a first database based on the list of wire centers;

send a query describing a first one of the sub-location addresses to a second database that tracks whether a telephone line associated with the first sub-location address can be reassigned to a basic address corresponding to the first sub-location address;

receive a reply from the second database indicating that the first sub-location address can be reassigned to the basic address;

determine that the first sub-location address can be deleted from the first database based on the reply;

reassigne the telephone line from the first sub-location address to the basic address;

delete the first sub-location address; and

generate a report that includes the first sub-location address.