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US 8,301,471 B2Granted
Methods and systems for managing an inventory of telephone numbers
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsShivakumar Swamynathan, Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva, Rama Krishna Gude, Sunil Kumar, Nityanand Sharma
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Abstract
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include storing telephone number inventory data using a database associated with a network, receiving, from a user system, a request for telephone number forecast data, forecasting future telephone number usage based on at least a history of telephone number inventory data, and providing, to the user system, telephone number forecast data based on at least the forecast of future telephone number usage.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- storing telephone number inventory data using a database associated with a network;
- receiving, from a user system, a request for telephone number forecast data;
- using one or more computer processors to forecast future telephone number usage based on historical trends in telephone number inventory data;
- determining whether the forecasted future telephone number usage exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- providing, to the user system, a warning if the forecasted future telephone number usage exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- and
- providing, to the user system, telephone number forecast data based on at least the forecast of future telephone number usage.
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A system, comprising:
- a database for storing telephone number inventory data associated with managing an inventory of telephone numbers;
- and
- a network element communicatively coupled to the database and a network configured to:
- receive request data, from a user system, wherein the request data comprises a request for information relating at least in part to managing an inventory of telephone numbers,
- forecast future telephone number usage based on historical trends in telephone number inventory data,
- determine whether the forecasted future telephone number usage exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- provide, to the user system, a warning if the forecasted future telephone number usage exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- and
- provide, to the user system, telephone number forecast data based on at least the forecast of future telephone number usage.
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