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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Thomas Matthew McCann, Morrisville, NC (US);
Raghavendra Gopala Rao, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Fulton West, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Peter Joseph Marsico, Carrboro, NC (US);
Tekelec, Calabasas, CA (US);
Abstract
A porting control routing (PCR) node ( ) is adapted to efficiently route signaling messages associated with a mobile subscriber that has been either ported in to or out of a service provider's wireless communication network. The PCR node ( ) includes both range- and exception based routing rule databases ( and ). These databases increase flexibility in allocating mobile identification numbers among multiple mobile service nodes. Furthermore, the association of a ported status indicator and related routing information with entries in the exception based database allows the PCR node ( ) to more efficiently manage a service provider's mobile service resources.