Method and apparatus for ubiquitous access to dialing plans for enterprise networks
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
InventorsMarian Croak, Hossein Eslambolchi
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Abstract
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for providing at least one network endpoint of an enterprise customer network access to at least one dialing plan. Specifically, the method comprises receiving at least one dialing plan request from the at least one network endpoint, retrieving at least one address mapping in response to the at least one dialing plan request, and responding to the at least one dialing plan request using the at least one address mapping.
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A method for processing a dialing plan request, comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, the dialing plan request from a network endpoint of an enterprise customer;
- retrieving, by the processor, an address mapping in response to the dialing plan request, wherein the address mapping maps the dialing plan request to a dialing plan found in one of a plurality of service plans offered by a service provider, wherein the enterprise customer is a customer of the service provider and subscribed to a service plan of the plurality of service plans, wherein the dialing plan is a reduced number dialing plan that allows the enterprise customer to dial fewer than all digits of a telephone number, wherein the enterprise customer is not a current subscriber to the dialing plan, regardless of the service plan to which the enterprise customer has subscribed;
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- responding, by the processor, to the dialing plan request using the address mapping, wherein the responding to the dialing plan request comprises completing a call attempt using the dialing plan.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a dialing plan request from a network endpoint of an enterprise customer;
- retrieving an address mapping in response to the dialing plan request, wherein the address mapping maps the dialing plan request to a dialing plan found in one of a plurality of service plans offered by a service provider, wherein the enterprise customer is a customer of the service provider and subscribed to a service plan of the plurality of service plans, wherein the dialing plan is a reduced number dialing plan that allows the enterprise customer to dial fewer than all digits of a telephone number, wherein the enterprise customer is not a current subscriber to the dialing plan, regardless of the service plan to which the enterprise customer has subscribed;
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- responding to the dialing plan request using the address mapping, wherein the responding to the dialing plan request comprises completing a call attempt using the dialing plan.
An apparatus for processing a dialing plan request, comprising:
- a processor;
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- a computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving the dialing plan request from a network endpoint of an enterprise customer;
- retrieving an address mapping in response to the dialing plan request, wherein the address mapping maps the dialing plan request to a dialing plan found in one of a plurality of service plans offered by a service provider, wherein the enterprise customer is a customer of the service provider and subscribed to a service plan of the plurality of service plans, wherein the dialing plan is a reduced number dialing plan that allows the enterprise customer to dial fewer than all digits of a telephone number, wherein the enterprise customer is not a current subscriber to the dialing plan, regardless of the service plan to which the enterprise customer has subscribed;
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- responding to the dialing plan request using the address mapping to complete a call attempt using the dialing plan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.