System and method of providing number identification in an intelligent telephone network

A method of modifying a calling party identification (ID) privacy indicator, the method comprising:

• receiving a signaling system 7 (SS7) query message associated with a called telephone number;
• determining whether the called telephone number is a toll free number;
• when the called telephone number is a toll free number, determining a day that a telephone call is made to the toll free number;
• and
• based on the day that the telephone call is made to the toll free number, selectively modifying one or more parameters in a response message to the SS7 query message in order to allow an identification of a caller based on a caller ID privacy override (CPO) module input, wherein the response message is an analyze route message that includes at least one calling party ID parameter, the at least one calling party ID parameter including at least a calling party ID privacy indicator.

A telephone system, comprising:

• a service control point;
• a service control point database accessible to the service control point;
• a service switching point;
• a computer program embedded within a computer readable storage medium within the service control point, the computer program comprising:
• instructions to modify a calling party ID privacy indicator within a query message associated with a telephone call to a toll free number;
• instructions to determine a day that the telephone call is made to the toll free number;
• and
• instructions to modify the calling party ID privacy indicator based on the day that the telephone call is received.