Automatic Carrier Routing for Telephony
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for routing digital information, such as voice calls, across multiple carriers face challenges due to time-varying factors like cost, quality, and bandwidth, as well as customer-specific requirements and dynamic changes in carrier pricing and availability, necessitating a flexible and real-time adjustment system.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for automatically configuring data routings that utilize a central database to store and manage carrier information, including pricing and quality levels, and software modules to dynamically select carriers based on screening criteria, adjust prices, and reroute data transmissions in real-time, ensuring optimal routing paths and minimizing service disruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual routing configuration is used, then system complexity is reduced, but adaptability to time-varying factors deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic routing configuration that automatically adjusts carrier selection based on real-time changing factors such as cost, quality, and bandwidth availability. The system continuously monitors these parameters and reroutes data transmissions without manual intervention, making the routing structure adaptive to time-varying conditions while managing complexity through automated algorithms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If automated real-time routing adjustment is implemented, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the routing system to automatically monitor carrier performance metrics, detect changes in cost-quality-bandwidth factors, and independently make routing decisions without external control. The system self-configures termination paths by evaluating real-time data and executing rerouting operations autonomously, reducing the need for complex external management infrastructure.
3Reliability
If multiple carriers are monitored for optimal routing, then routing quality improves, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent monitors multiple carriers by tracking key parameters such as cost, quality metrics, and bandwidth availability. The system processes these parameters dynamically, comparing carrier performances across these dimensions to identify optimal routing options. By focusing on essential parameters rather than comprehensive carrier data, the system maintains high routing reliability while managing information processing loads efficiently.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided herein a system and method for automatic configuration of data routings for use with electronic data such as phone calls, faxes, etc. In the preferred embodiment, when more than one carrier might potentially terminate the transmission, the carriers are ordered based on some screening criterion (e.g., transmission price). Data transmissions are then assigned to the carriers based on the sorting order, with the second place and lower carriers (e.g., the higher priced carriers) not being selected unless the first carrier cannot complete the transaction. The switch instructions necessary to implement this scheme are generated automatically.