Unified Services Platform Using A Telephone Number As A Common Subscriber Identifier

摘要

A system and method for enabling the telephone number as a platform for the association of IP-enabled services with legacy telephone service. A unified services enabler platform may be utilized to associate a customer and their telephone number with a variety of services and applications from multiple different ecosystems. The customer can continue to use their existing telephone service and in addition can utilize new IP-enabled features that are associated with their telephone number as the common ID.

主权项

1. A telephone system comprising:
a database; and a server coupled to the database, wherein the server is utilized by a first provider to provide a first service to a first user, wherein the first service is telephone service, and wherein the telephone service is associated with a first telephone number; wherein the server is configured to:
receive a request to provision a second service for the first user, wherein the second service is provided by a second provider, and wherein the second provider is different than the first provider;responsive to receiving the request:
create a mapping from the first telephone number to a second identifier (ID), wherein the second ID is utilized by the second provider to identify the first user;activate the second service with the second provider utilizing the second ID as a user ID for the first user; andassociate the second service with the first telephone number.