Enhanced efficient telephone number portability
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1. A method for providing telephone number portability comprising the steps of:
- a) transmitting from an originating switching office a called telephone number to its inherent switching office destination;
b) terminating connection between said originating switching office and said inherent switching office upon not being able to establish connection to said called telephone number;
c) causing said originating switching office to request a new switching office location for said called telephone number; and
d) causing said originating switching office to establish connection to said new switching office.
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Abstract
Method and system are provided for efficient telephone number portability within a geographically dispersed telephony and the like switching system, wherein ported telephone numbers, when dialled and found non-existent at their number-inherent destination, a "Release Treatment" with a trigger (automatic flexible routing) searches in a database from the originating switching node or office, whereupon their new network node address is directly connected to following normal routing procedures; thus permitting realistically affordable telephone number portability, particularly local number portability (LNP).
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1. A method for providing telephone number portability comprising the steps of:
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a) transmitting from an originating switching office a called telephone number to its inherent switching office destination; b) terminating connection between said originating switching office and said inherent switching office upon not being able to establish connection to said called telephone number; c) causing said originating switching office to request a new switching office location for said called telephone number; and d) causing said originating switching office to establish connection to said new switching office.
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2. A geographically distributed telephony switching system for providing number portability within said switching system while conserving at least transmission facilities between switching nodes of the system comprising:
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(a) database storage means for storing ported telephone numbers and new switching node numbers corresponding thereof; (b) trigger means at least one of said switching nodes for enabling access to said database storage means for retrieving a new switching node number corresponding to a ported telephone number; and (c) trunk means at at least one of said switching nodes for indicating if connection to said new switching node number entails long distance charges. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5)
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6. A geographically distributed telephony switching system for providing telephone number portability within said switching system while conserving at least transmission facilities between switching nodes of the system comprising:
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(a) database storage means for storing ported telephone numbers and new switching node numbers corresponding thereto; (b) trigger means at least one of said switching nodes for enabling access to said database storage means for retrieving a new switching node number corresponding to a ported telephone number; and (c) said trigger means comprising a permanently busied announcement trunk adapted to trigger an automatic flexible routing procedure resident in said at least one of said switching nodes.
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