Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to mobile telephony devices

摘要

Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to a mobile telephony device that is roaming outside of its native service area make use of a forwarding termination service. The forwarding termination service causes the native mobile telephony service provider that provides service to the mobile telephony device to forward incoming telephony communications directed the native telephone number of the mobile telephony device to a forwarding access number. The forwarding termination service receives telephony communications directed to the forwarding access number, and then terminates the telephony communication to the mobile telephony device via any one of multiple different methods. The mobile telephony service provider can be instructed to implement and cancel call forwarding instructions by dialing a special character string on the mobile telephony device.

主权项

1. A method of terminating a telephony communication to a telephony device that receives its native telephony service from a native telephony service provider, where the telephony communication is terminated to the telephony device via a non-native telephony service provider, comprising:
receiving, at the non-native telephony service provider, a first telephony communication that was originally sent from a calling party to a native telephone number of the telephony device and which has been forwarded from the native telephony service provider to the non-native telephony service provider; providing a communication to the calling party, the communication including information that enables the calling party to send a telephony communication intended for the telephony device directly to the non-native telephony service provider; receiving, at the non-native telephony service provider, a second telephony communication from the calling party that is to be terminated to the telephony device; and attempting to terminate the second telephony communication to the telephony device.