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Calling party number selection for outbound calls

  • US 9,154,614 B1
  • Filed: 08/13/2012
  • Issued: 10/06/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for selecting a calling party telephone number for an outgoing call, the system comprising:

  • memory storing;

    a plurality of pools, each pool comprising a plurality of calling party telephone numbers; and

    an index value configured to be periodically incremented,decremented, or randomly determined; and

    at least one computer processor configured to;

    retrieve a called party telephone number for the outgoing call;

    select a pool from the plurality of pools based on an area designation of the called party telephone number;

    select the calling party telephone number from the plurality of calling party telephone numbers of the selected pool based on the index value; and

    facilitate having the outgoing call originated to the called party telephone number with the outgoing call conveying the selected calling party telephone number.

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