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US 9,544,445 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.
Claims27
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;
- deseasonalizing, using at least one computing device, historical call quantity data for traffic corresponding to the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations, the subset connecting traffic according to an old rate prior to the at least one price change;
- identifying, using the at least one computing device, a likelihood of a significant change from the deseasonalized historical call quantity data to a new call volume data for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations due to the institution of the at least one price rate at a new rate different from the old rate;
- propagating, based on the likelihood of a change in call volume, the new rate into a routing system of the connected network when the change in call volume meets a threshold and;
- accepting telecommunications traffic from an origination point via the connected network to a carrier destination in the plurality of carrier destinations according to the new rate.
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A telecommunication system for routing telecommunications traffic comprising:
- a least cost routing system of a network with a plurality of carrier destinations, the least cost routing system including a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions to determine at least one second rate for the plurality of carrier destinations, the at least one second rate based on the method of:
- identifying a subset of the plurality of carrier destinations to institute at least one price change for carrying traffic;
- deseasonalizing, using at least one computing device, historical call quantity data for traffic corresponding to the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations, the subset connecting traffic according to an old rate prior to the at least one price change;
- identifying, using the at least one computing device, a likelihood of a significant change from the deseasonalized historical call quantity data to a new call volume data for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations due to the institution of the at least one price rate at a new rate different from the old rate;
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- generating, based on the likelihood of a change in call volume, the at least one second rate when the change in call volume meets a threshold.
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A non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer executable instructions to perform the method of:
- 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;
- deseasonalizing, using at least one computing device, historical call quantity data for traffic corresponding to the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations, the subset connecting traffic according to an old rate prior to the at least one price change;
- identifying, using the at least one computing device, a likelihood of a significant change from the deseasonalized historical call quantity data to a new call volume data for the subset of the plurality of carrier destinations due to the institution of the at least one price rate at a new rate different from the old rate;
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- propagating, based on the likelihood of a change in call volume, the new rate into a routing system of the connected network when the change in call volume meets a threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.