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Subscriber database management in a mobile telecommunications system

  • US 5,956,637 A
  • Filed: 02/20/1996
  • Issued: 09/21/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a telecommunications system comprising a plurality of mobile stations and a plurality of data nodes, each of said data nodes including at least one base station having a coverage area, and wherein each of said plurality of mobile stations is capable of making calls to and receiving calls from one of a plurality of subscribers, each of said subscribers being associated with a directory number and having a subscriber profile, a method of directing a call from an originating subscriber to a called subscriber, said method comprising the steps of:

  • maintaining a record for at least one directory number called by the originating subscriber, said record comprising data associated with calls to said at least one directory number and being updated at each call made by the originating subscriber to said at least one directory number;

    determining if said data indicates that calls to said at least one directory number meet a selected criterion; and

    in response to an affirmative determination in said step of determining;

    placing said at least one directory number in a database of stored directory numbers within the subscriber profile of the originating subscriber, said database being located at at least one of said plurality of data nodes.

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