METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING OR GENERATING A SINGLE CALL DETAIL RECORD (CDR) FROM A PLURALITY OF CDRs ASSOCIATED WITH A CALL HAVING A PLURALITY OF LEGS

摘要

A communication network (100) includes a monitoring system (200) and associated CDR selection and consolidation function (202). Network (100) includes a first end office (EO) (102) with a point code address 1-1-1, a first tandem office (104) with a point code address 2-2-2, a second tandem office (106) with a point code address 3-3-3, a second EO (108) with a code point address 4-4-4. EO (102) serves calling party subscriber B, and EO (108) serves called party subscriber A. Monitoring system (200) may receive CDR information from several signaling link monitoring probes (112-116). Each monitoring probes (112-116) monitors and copy SS7 MSU traffic between each leg and generate associated CDR information. Monitoring system (200) receives and stores the CDR information from each remote monitoring probe. Selection and consolidation function (202) processes the stored CDR information using single-CDR selection algorithm to generate a single CDR for the call.