US 12,294,670 B2
Method for managing an unallocated telephone number in a communication network, method for processing a request for allocating a telephone number, corresponding devices, item of communication equipment, system and computer programs
Paul Beardow, Chatillon (FR); and Frank Derville, Chatillon (FR)
Assigned to Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,981.
Claims priority of application No. 2112932 (FR), filed on Dec. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179696 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/27457 (2020.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/27457 (2020.01) [H04M 3/42297 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing at least one unallocated telephone number in a communication network, wherein the method is implemented by an item of network equipment and comprises:
updating, in a first data table storing unallocated telephone numbers, at least one piece of information relating to an activity level of the telephone number in the communication network, the piece of information relating to an activity level being representative of a number of call set-up requests to the telephone number received by the communication network for an observation period and being associated with the telephone number, the updating using a piece of information relating to a call set-up request received by the communication network to the telephone number during the observation period,
wherein the piece of information relating to the call set-up request is obtained by querying, from the called telephone number, a second data table, referred to as an event table, updating the second table being decorrelated from updating the first table.