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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2006
Applicants:

Mariafranca Gregorat, Dallas, TX (US);

Steven L. Lass, Allen, TX (US);

Richard L. Mcclain, Frisco, TX (US);

Timothy Dwight, Richardson, TX (US);

James L. Verlare, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Gregory Welch, Somerset, NJ (US);

Yaron Raps, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mariafranca Gregorat, Dallas, TX (US);

Steven L. Lass, Allen, TX (US);

Richard L. McClain, Frisco, TX (US);

Timothy Dwight, Richardson, TX (US);

James L. Verlare, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Gregory Welch, Somerset, NJ (US);

Yaron Raps, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 1/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method includes receiving a telephone number mapping query associated with a call. The method may also include generating routing information based on the query and forwarding the routing information to a control device. The routing information may indicate that processing associated with routing the call is to bypass a core portion of an Internet multimedia subsystem (IMS) when a calling party associated with the call does not invoke an IMS service, the called party associated with the call does not invoke an IMS service and the called party is not an IMS subscriber.


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