Interactive electronic ordering for telecommunications...

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2005-08-30

2005-08-30

Smith, Creighton (Department: 2645)

Telephonic communications

Plural exchange network or interconnection

With interexchange network routing

Reexamination Certificate

active

06937714

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for exchanging telecommunication service information between a telecommunication service provider and a telecommunication service customer include electronically receiving a request in a predefined format to establish an interactive session with a telecommunications customer, determining whether the telecommunications customer is authorized for electronically exchanging information and continuing only if the customer is authorized, parsing the request to identify information related to at least one telecommunications service offered by the telecommunications services provider, the telecommunications service having an associated identification code, determining whether the requested telecommunication service is available in a particular location, and automatically generating information associated with the requested telecommunications service and transmitting the information using the predetermined format to the customer. In one embodiment, the predetermined format is determined by a standards organization, such as ANSI, and transmitted during an interactive session using a TCP/IP connection.

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