Services control point selection in an advanced intelligent network

A tangible volatile or non-volatile computer readable storage medium having stored therein sequences of instructions for a peripheral platform comprising a processor and a data communication interface for enabling the peripheral platform to communicate to a plurality of service control points having a plurality of network interfaces, the sequences of instructions for causing the peripheral platform to perform the steps of:

• collecting data identifying a subscriber's telephone station;
• accessing data records related to the telephone station and plurality of service control points from a database;
• selecting a particular service control point among the plurality of service control points;
• selecting one of a plurality of network interfaces of the particular service control point by;
• (a) computing a database value corresponding to the particular service control point, and
• (b) querying the database using the database value to obtain a network address;
• and
• establishing a signaling data connection between a data communication interface of a peripheral platform coupled to a telephone network and the network interface of the particular service control point having the network address.

A peripheral platform system for use with a telephone network, said peripheral platform comprising:

• a telephone network interface;
• a processor coupled to the telephone network interface for controlling processing of calls through the telephone network interface;
• a database accessible to the processor;
• a program stored on the platform, for causing the processor to select a service control point among a plurality of the service control points in response to each call, wherein the program causes the processor to select a network address from a plurality of network addresses associated with the selected service control point by determining a database value corresponding to the selected service control point and querying the database using the database value to obtain the network address;
• and
• a data communication interface coupled to the processor;
• wherein the processor executes the program to establish a data connection via the data communication interface with the selected service control point using the network address.

A system comprising:

• a telephone network interface;
• a processor coupled to the telephone network interface for controlling processing of calls through the telephone network interface;
• a data communication interface coupled to the processor;
• a database accessible to the processor, the database including
• a first table having data representative of a plurality of telephone number assignment groups and a plurality of service control points, each of the telephone number assignment groups being associated with a corresponding one of the service control points, and
• a second table having data representative of the plurality of service control points and a plurality of network addresses, each of the service control points being associated with at least one of the network addresses;
• and
• a program stored on the platform, the program being configured to cause the processor collect data identifying a subscriber telephone station,
• query the first table using the collected data to identify, from among the plurality of service control points, an identifier representative of a particular one of the service control points,
• query the second table using the identifier, the query generating a list of the network addresses that correspond with a plurality of network interfaces of the particular service control point,
• select one of the network addresses from the list using a predetermined algorithm, and
• establish a signaling data connection between the data communication interface and one of the plurality of network interfaces of the particular service control point that corresponds with the selected network address.