SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROVISION, CUSTOMER SELECTION, AND DEACTIVATION OF TEMPORARY ADVANCED INTELLIGENT NETWORK SERVICES

摘要

System and method for providing a customer with the abilityto obtain temporary advanced telecommunication services in theAdvanced Intelligent Network (AIN) for the customer's calling line bydialing a call to special access code, without the intervention of a servicerepresentative. The call is recognized as a request for an initiation of atemporary advanced telecommunication service with respect to thecustomer's calling line. On the basis of the recognition, an associationmay be retained between the calling line number and the serviceswitching point serving the calling line number. This retainedassociation may be used later in the activation of the temporary advancedtelecommunication service for the calling line number. The call isrouted to a rental service interface through which rental informationfrom the caller may be collected. This rental information may becompiled into a rental agreement that is used as the basis for activation ofthe temporary advanced telecommunication services with respect to thecaller's calling line number. Confirmation of the activation may beprovided to the communication. The rental information may also includea termination time for the temporary advanced telecommunicationservices. The termination time and the retained association may beutilized to initiate the deactivation of the temporary advancedtelecommunications services.