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US 9,491,308 B1Granted
Telecommunication price-based routing apparatus, system and method
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorsWilliam Gray, Binchao Chen, Peder Hans Engebretson
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to telecommunications networks, processing and routing calls between networks, a computing system and methodologies for optimizing pricing particularly in situations with massive amounts of data, processing call volume data, deseasonalizing data, minutes of use data, establishing and distributing pricing data for use in routing decisions, among other features and advantages.
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A method for routing telecommunications traffic comprising:
- in a telecommunication network with a plurality of carrier destinations with a connected network, identifying a subset of the plurality of carrier destinations to institute at least one price change for carrying traffic for the connected network;
- providing for loading the at least one price change for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations into a least cost routing system of the connected network such that traffic between the telecommunication network and the connected network at the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations will be at the at least one price change;
- deseasonalizing, using at least one computing device, call quantity data for traffic corresponding to at least one carrier destination;
- generating, using the at least one computing device, a probability of a call volume change in the deseasonalized call quantity data;
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- providing for loading, based on the probability of the call volume change, at least one second price change for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations into the least cost routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a change.
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A system for routing telecommunication traffic comprising:
- a telecommunication network with a plurality of carrier destinations with a connected network;
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- at least one computing device connected to the telecommunication network, the at least one computing device to:
- identify a subset of the plurality of carrier destinations to institute at least one price change for carrying traffic for the connected network;
- provide for loading the at least one price change for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations into a least cost routing system of the connected network such that traffic between the telecommunication network and the connected network at the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations will be at the at least one price change;
- deseasonalize call quantity data for traffic corresponding to at least one carrier destination;
- generate a probability of a call volume change in the deseasonalized call quantity data;
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- provide for loading, based on the probability of the call volume change, at least one second price change for the subset of plurality of carrier destinations into the routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a change.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions for routing telecommunication traffic, the instructions, executable by a processor, comprising:
- in a telecommunication network with a plurality of carrier destinations with a connected network, identifying a subset of the plurality of carrier destinations to institute at least one price change for carrying traffic for the connected network;
- providing for loading the at least one price change for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations into a least cost routing system of the connected network such that traffic between the telecommunication network and the connected network at the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations will be at the at least one price change;
- deseasonalizing call quantity data for traffic corresponding to at least one carrier destination;
- generating a probability of a call volume change in the deseasonalized call quantity data;
- and
- providing for loading, based on the probability of the call volume change, at least one second price change for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations into the least cost routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a change.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.