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US 9,596,360 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, receiving a first set of call volume data for a plurality of carrier destinations where the first set of call volume is associated with a first price rate loaded into a least cost routing system of the connected network;
- receiving a second set of call volume data for the plurality of carrier destinations where the second set of call volume data is associated with a second price rate loaded into the least cost routing system of the connected network;
- upon determining that the second price rate probabilistically caused a change in call volume at the plurality of carrier destinations, classifying an outcome of loading the second price rate into the least cost routing system, the outcome being at least one of a positive outcome associated with an increase in margin between the first price rate and the second price rate and a negative outcome associated with a decrease in margin between the first price rate and the second price rate;
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- providing for routing traffic using the least cost routing system based on the classified outcome.
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A non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer executable instructions to perform:
- in a telecommunication network with a plurality of carrier destinations with a connected network, receiving a first set of call volume data for a plurality of carrier destinations where the first set of call volume is associated with a first price rate loaded into a least cost routing system of the connected network;
- receiving a second set of call volume data for the plurality of carrier destinations where the second set of call volume data is associated with a second price rate loaded into the least cost routing system of the connected network;
- upon determining that the second price rate probabilistically caused a change in call volume at the plurality of carrier destinations, classifying an outcome of loading the second price rate into the least cost routing system, the outcome being at least one of a positive outcome associated with an increase in margin between the first price rate and the second price rate and a negative outcome associated with a decrease in margin between the first price rate and the second price rate;
- providing for routing traffic using the least cost routing system based on the classified outcome.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.