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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2002
William Plunkett, Apex, NC (US);
Laura Culli, Austin, TX (US);
M. Lourdes Coranado, Austin, TX (US);
David Hickman, St. Louis, MO (US);
Bruce A. Nance, St. Louis, MO (US);
John Simino, St. Louis, MO (US);
Mark Tamasi, St. Louis, MO (US);
SBC Laboratories, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Method and network for routing a communication through an alternate carrier. The network routes a communication based on a dedicated identifier through a plurality of interexchange carriers upon input of the dedicated identifier and a request code, and has a node configured to request carrier data in response to entry of the dedicated identifier, and a controller operably connected to the node, the controller configured to set as a primary carrier, in response to a first condition of the request code, a carrier of a sequence of carriers assigned to the node, and in response to a second condition of the request code, setting an alternate carrier to a highest remaining ranked carrier of the sequence of carriers.