Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

George M Tsacnaris

John Phillip Malyar

Nilay Ghoghari

Patrick Keenan White

Lifang Joann Xu

Elie Rosenfeld

William F Woodbury

Joel Zamlong

Richard Jacowleff

Lisa Marie Maxson

Jatinder S Hayer

Thomas H Sensabaugh

Adam Newman

Chris Smaling

Manish Bhardwaj

An architecture and accompanying method and apparatus for providing multi vendor administration of telephone numbers being ported from one service provider to another.

Multi vendor NPAC administration peering

To support local number portability and service portability in a telephone network, a method and apparatus handle subscription and administrative service requests in a local service management system to maintain records at a service control point. The subscription requests include create, modify, and delete requests of records in the service control point. The administrative service requests include Numbering Plan Area (NPA) code split, mass change, and query and resend requests. The records at the service control point are accessible by switches via respective signal transfer points to determine the network addresses of the switches handling services and calls corresponding to a particular telephone number.

Method and apparatus for handling subscription and administrative

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Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

George M Tsacnaris