System and method for providing caller identification in conjunction with calling card calls

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A system and method for providing calling party identification information to a called party in an intelligent network. A long distance calling card company maintains a subscriber database that includes preferred calling number data and calling name data for each subscriber. When a subscriber places a calling card call the service provider looks up, the subscriber's database record retrieves the preferred calling number data, and sends the calling number data to the terminating end office. A calling name query from the terminating end office is routed to a database that includes data from the service provider's subscriber database. The caller's name is retrieved and returned to the …