Techniques for managing an aging telephone number before returning to active service

A computer system configured to manage out of service telephone numbers, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium to store a set of instructions executable by the one or more processors, the set of instructions to cause the one or more processors to:
• identify an out of service telephone number;
• obtain a return-to-service function corresponding to the out of service telephone number, wherein the return-to-service function indicates how to calculate a profile score for the out of service telephone number and identifies criteria to use in calculating the profile score;
• calculate the profile score for the out of service using the return-to-service function and the criteria;
• assign a profile of a plurality of profiles to the out of service telephone number based on the profile score, wherein each profile corresponds to different aging timelines for a plurality of quality-related statuses, wherein each quality-related status corresponds to a different level of confidence as to a cleanliness of an associated telephone number;
• associate a quality-related status of the plurality of quality-related statuses with the out of service telephone number based on the assigned profile and timing information relating to a length of time since the out of service telephone number was taken out of service, wherein the associated quality-related status changes according to the respective aging timeline corresponding to the assigned;
• and
• determine timing information relating to eligibility for returning the out of service telephone number into active service, wherein the out of service telephone number is added to an inventory of telephone numbers eligible for active service based on an expiration of a time period corresponding to the timing information.

At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a set of instructions executable on at least one computing device to cause the at least one computing device to manage out of service telephone numbers (TNs) before returning them to active service, the set of instructions to:

• identify an out of service telephone number;
• obtain a return-to-service function corresponding to the out of service telephone number, wherein the return-to-service function indicates how to calculate a profile score for the out of service telephone number and identifies criteria to use in calculating the profile score;
• calculate the profile score for the out of service using the return-to-service function and the criteria;
• assign a profile of a plurality of profiles to the out of service telephone number based on the profile score, wherein each profile corresponds to different aging timelines for a plurality of quality-related statuses, wherein each quality-related status corresponds to a different level of confidence as to a cleanliness of an associated telephone number;
• associate a quality-related status of the plurality of quality-related statuses with the out of service telephone number based on the assigned profile and timing information relating to a length of time since the out of service telephone number was taken out of service, wherein the associated quality-related status changes according to the respective aging timeline corresponding to the assigned profile;
• and
• determine timing information relating to eligibility for returning the out of service telephone number into active service, wherein the out of service telephone number is added to an inventory of telephone numbers eligible for active service based on an expiration of a time period corresponding to the timing information.