Telecommunication price-based routing apparatus, system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10178241-B2
Application number	US-201815948704-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2018
Priority date	Jan 23, 2014
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. 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; and
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,
wherein providing for loading, based on the probability of call volume change, at least one second price change into the least cost routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a significant negative change associated with a margin after the at least one price change being negative relative to a margin before the at least one price change.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to a significant change level, using the at least one computing device, a margin value quantifying a margin difference for carrying traffic when the at least one price change is applied compared to when a price rate was applied prior to the at least one price change;
when the margin value meets a threshold, generating the at least one second price change as a price reversion to the price rate applied prior to the at least one price change.

3. A system for routing telecommunication traffic comprising:
a telecommunication network with a plurality of carrier destinations with a connected network; and
at least one computing device connected to the telecommunication network, the at least one computing device operable to:
identify a subset of the plurality of carrier destinations to institute at least one price change for carrying traffic for the connected network; and
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,
wherein providing for loading, based on the probability of call volume change, at least one second price change into the routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a significant negative change associated with a margin after the at least one price change being negative relative to a margin before the at least one price change.

4. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein the at least one computing device is operable to:
in response to a significant change level, determine a margin value quantifying a margin difference for carrying traffic when the at least one price change is applied compared to when a price rate was applied prior to the at least one price change; and
when the margin value meets a threshold, generate the at least one second price change as a price reversion to the price rate applied prior to the at least one price change.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions for routing telecommunication traffic, the instructions, executable by a computing device, 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; and
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,
wherein providing for loading, based on the probability of call volume change, at least one second price change into the least cost routing system when the probability meets a threshold indicative of a significant negative change associated with a margin after the at least one price change being negative relative to a margin before the at least one price change.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 5 , further comprising:
in response to a significant change level, determining, using the at least one computing device, a margin value quantifying a margin difference for carrying traffic when the at least one price change is applied compared to when a price rate was applied prior to the at least one price change;
when the margin value meets a threshold, generating the at least one second price change as a price reversion to the price rate applied prior to the ate least one price change.

Assignees

• Level 3 Communications Llc

Inventors

• Gray William
• Chen Binchao
• Engebretson Peder Hans

Classifications

• H04W40/12

  based on transmission quality or channel quality · CPC title

• H04M2215/44

  Charging/billing arrangements for connection made over different networks, e.g. wireless and PSTN, ISDN, etc. · CPC title

• H04L12/1435

  volume-based · CPC title

• H04M15/70

  Administration or customization aspects; Counter-checking correct charges · CPC title

• H04M15/31 Primary

  Distributed metering or calculation of charges · CPC title