Automatic routing and information system for telephonic services

In a telecommunications network, a method of automatically processing a telephone call, comprising the steps of:

• automatically generating client tables comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a small geographic key and client information indicative of a geographic location, wherein for each client table, the method includes the step of providing a client service locations file containing a plurality of service location addresses, each location having a client-defined geographic service area of substantially any desired shape and size;
• storing the client tables and a master table comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a telephone number and a small geographic key, in the telecommunications network;
• receiving a caller telephone number and a dialed telephone number from the network;
• indexing the master table with the received caller telephone number to obtain a master table record;
• retrieving one of the small geographic keys from the master table record;
• selecting one of the client tables from the plurality of client tables based on the dialed telephone number;
• indexing the selected client table with the retrieved small geographic key to obtain a selected client table record;
• and
• retrieving selected client information from the selected client table record.

A table generation process for use in a call processing system in a telephone network, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of service locations each location having an associated, specified service area;
• windowing coordinates of one of the service areas with a plurality of prestored windows, each window having an associated list, each list having one or more keys, wherein each key is indicative of a zip+6 code area, a census block, or a latitude/longitude grid, tile, window, or quad-tree, such that the windowing step generates a composite list;
• and
• creating a client table record including one of the keys contained within the one of the service areas and client information corresponding to the one of the service areas.