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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2004
Rick L. Allison, Cary, NC (US);
Neil Tomlinson, Ascot, GB;
Rick L. Allison, Cary, NC (US);
Neil Tomlinson, Ascot, GB;
Tekelec, Morrisville, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically provisioning prepaid mobile subscriber information in a telecommunications network are provided. In one method, a location management message regarding a prepaid mobile subscriber is received at a routing node. The routing node determines whether a routing address translation entry exists for the prepaid mobile subscriber. If a routing address translation entry does not exist, the routing node sends a notification message to a provisioning system. The provisioning system receives the notification message and provisions an HLR with subscription information for the subscriber. The provisioning system also sends routing address translation information to the routing node for provisioning an entry in the routing address translation database for the subscriber. The routing node may then either route the original location management message to the HLR or discard the original message and wait until the MSC retransmits the location management message.