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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Probal Mukherjee, Plano, TX (US);
James Brian Welling, Jr., Richardson, TX (US);
Rosemary McGowan, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/24 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus in a communications system for providing call interception. A call is received at a switch in the communications system. Responsive to the call involving a service using identification numbers unknown to the communications system, a remote database associated with the service is queried, wherein the remote database contains a plurality of identification numbers. A result is received from the remote database in response to querying the remote database. A call interception service is initiated based on the result.