公开(公告)号：GB2481653A

公开(公告)日：2012-01-04

申请号：GB201011229

申请日：2010-07-02

Applicant: XCONNECT GLOBAL NETWORKS LTD

Inventor： SCHWARTZ DAVID MARK ,  BERKOWITZ MICHAEL BARRETT

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04Q3/76

Abstract: An Internet telephony registry ( 190 , figure 1) comprises a server ( 140 ) and an associated data store ( 160 ) . Routing and/or policy data associated with telephone number strings are stored in the data store ( 160 ) in a tree data structure 240 and a data index map 230. The tree data structure 240 comprises parent nodes and leaf nodes and each parent node of the tree data structure 240 has ten child nodes. The tree data structure 240 stores an index associated with each telephone number string and the data index map stores routing and/or policy attributes 233 represented by the indices 232.