John O Simino

6490345, Dec 3, 2002

Jan 17, 2001

09/760728

Louis Michael Morales - Wittier CA
John E. Simino - Arnold MO
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX

SBC Technology Resources, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 1500

37911401, 37911403, 37911412, 37911501, 37912102, 379188, 37922001

A method and system include screening and routing telephone calls, generating calling data reports and discounting billing for a customers wide area centrex/PBX network, which includes an abbreviated dialing plan. A service control point (SCP) determines whether to block an outgoing call based on stored blocking tables and a privilege class of the calling station. The SCP determines whether to route the call through a private trunk group from a host switch to a private facility, and through an alternative trunk group when the private trunk group is unavailable. The SCP determines whether the call is eligible for discounted billing and generates a billing record, which is modified by a service switching point to indicate the discount. The SCP also samples calling data from service switching points and transmits the sampled data to a front end processor for formatting into station message detail recording (SMDR) data.

6567514, May 20, 2003

Jan 17, 2001

09/760835

John E. Simino - Arnold MO
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX

SBC Technology Resources, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 700

37922103, 37922108, 379224, 379225, 379232, 379234, 379901

A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.

6724874, Apr 20, 2004

Jan 17, 2001

09/760832

Louis Michael Morales - Wittier CA
John E. Simino - Arnold MO
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX

SBC Technology Resources, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 300

379196, 37922103, 379 45, 379197, 379198

A method and system include restricting destinations of a telephone call from a calling station, which has been assigned a privilege class. A service control point (SCP) stores blocking tables, based on privilege classes, and a privilege class control table, which associates the blocking tables with each privilege class. The SCP ascertains the assigned privilege class of the calling station and determines whether the telephone call corresponds to one of the types of blocking tables. When the telephone call does correspond, the SCP determines whether the assigned privilege class corresponds to the blocking table that corresponds to the attempted call. When there is no privilege class correspondence, the SCP bypasses validation of the called number. When there is privilege class correspondence, the SCP validates the called number and blocks the call when the called number is validated or continues call processing when the called number is not validated.

6985568, Jan 10, 2006

Apr 5, 2004

10/816844

Louis Michael Morales - Wittier CA, US
John E. Simino - Arnold MO, US
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX, US

SBC Technology Resources, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 15/00

37911412, 3791141

A telecommunications system includes a control point and a switching point for discounting a customer's billing for telephone calls completed in a wide area centrex/PBX network that includes an abbreviated dialing plan. The control point receives, from the switching point, a query that is generated based upon receiving a telephone call. The control point determines a call type code that is based upon a calling station type and a called station type. When the call type code is eligible for discounted billing, the control point generates a billing record of a first type for the call. The billing record of the first type is used to discount the billing for the call. The control point forwards, to the switching point, the billing record of the first type for the call. The switching point generates a billing record of a second type for the call and, when the call type code is eligible for discounted billing, the billing record of the first type is used to modify the billing record of the second type.

7054431, May 30, 2006

Jan 17, 2001

09/760834

Louis Michael Morales - Wittier CA, US
John E. Simino - Arnold MO, US
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX, US

SBC Technology Resources, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 7/00

37922108, 379 904, 37911201, 379126

A method and system for generating customer reports based on station message detail recording (SMDR) data includes a service control point (SCP) in a public switched telecommunications network (PSTN). The service control point samples calling data from multiple service switching points for calls originating from a private customer network, including centrex and PBX systems. The service control point interfaces with a front end processor and transmits the calling data. The front end processor formats the calling data into SMDR data, which is transmitted to a host central processing unit. The host generates reports regarding the SMDR calling data, the reports being accessible by a customer via a connection to a private customer network.

7505575, Mar 17, 2009

Aug 28, 2007

11/846035

John E. Simino - Arnold MO, US
Kenneth Robert Stroud - Lago Vista TX, US

AT&T Labs, Inc. - Austin TX

H04M 7/00

37922103, 37922108, 379224, 379225, 379232, 379234, 379901

A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.