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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Walter Wesley Howe, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Walter Wesley Howe, Alpharetta, GA (US);
GTE Wireless Incorporated, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone to a geographic-based local access directory number. A signaling node associated with the dialed local access DN sends a location request that includes the local access DN to an HLR. The HLR obtains the wireless DN from an internal database in which the wireless DN is associated with the local access DN. The HLR utilizes the wireless DN to receive a temporary local directory number (TLDN) from visitor location register, associates the TLDN with the local access DN and forwards the TLDN to the signaling node, which relays the TLDN to the originating switching node. The call connection is then established directly from the originating switching node to a visited cellular switch using the TLDN.