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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1997
Anjana Agarwal, Wheaton, IL (US);
Douglas Harold Rollender, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Virarghavan Sudarsan, Naperville, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of porting a wireless terminal's directory number from one wireless service provider to another is disclosed. One illustrative embodiment involves creating a temporary pointer in the recipient wireless service provider's Home Location Register that, during the inchoate porting process, directs a call for the directory number to the donor wireless service provider for completion in well-known fashion. When the porting process is complete, the temporary pointer is deactivated and call processing is completed by the recipient wireless service provider in well-known fashion.