| 摘要 |
System and method for validating a call within a telecommunications network that is vendor-independent. The system and method include a messaging facility, a validation database, and a validation facility. The messaging facility is connected to the telecommunications network, and configured to message to and receive messages from a telecommunication device (e.g., router, IRVU, etc.) related to the call being placed within the telecommunications network and to receive a validation request related to the call from said telecommunications device, the validation request being in a first format. The validation database is configured to maintain data relating to validating authorities (e.g., CYBERCASH, CYBERSOURCE, etc.) and the validating authorities' messaging format requirements (e.g., request content, protocol, format, etc.). The validation facility is coupled to the messaging facility and to the validation database, and is configured to receive a validation request from the messaging facility, to identify a validating authority related to the request, to access the validation database to convert the request from the first format to the related validating authority's messaging format as a second format based on data stored in the validation database corresponding to the related validating authority, to contact the related validating authority to request validation from the related validating authority in the second format, to receive a response from said related validating authority in the second format, to convert the response from the second format to the first format, and to send the response in the first format to the messaging device to be messaged to the telecommunications device in order to validate said call.
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