Managing Line Options and Features

Overview

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The Bandwidth Phone Number Phone Number API allows the association of a number of “Option” or “Feature” characteristics with a Telephone Number.

Initially this capability is restricted to the management of Calling Name Display and Call Forwarding for the TN, but will be expanded to additional “Line Features” with subsequent releases.

In addition to the configuration of Calling Name information, other per-TN capabilities already supported by the API will be addressed in this new document section.

Note about imported Phone Numbers for Hosted Messaging

Line Options feature management is NOT available for Phone numbers that have been imported for use with Hosted Messaging.

Single TN Option Assignment

There are a number of TN capabilities that can be easily assigned directly to the Telephone Number(TN) on a per-TN basis. This set of Per-TN Options includes:

  • Call Forwarding
  • Rewrite User
  • Inbound Calls Number Format
  • Remote Party ID Format

The path for managing these options is: /accounts/{accountId>/sites/{siteId}/sippeers/{sippeerId}/tns/{tn#}

Calling Name Display

In addition to setting Calling Name Display information on a per-TN basis as described above, the Bandwidth Phone Number Phone Number API allows the establishment of Calling Name Display settings for a collection of TNs at a time. Bandwidth provides this API as a convenience to enable provisioning collections of TNs. It can support the configuration of up to 1000 TNs in a single call.

The Calling Line Display is associated with TNs using a POST to the lineOptionOrders resource with a payload that describes the option and its disposition.

The key elements of the XML payload are:

  • TelephoneNumber: The TN that Calling Name Display will be activated on
  • CallingNameDisplay: [on | off | systemdefault ] where systemdefault will result in causing the TN to display the network default behavior.

The Bandwidth Phone Number API allows the updating of CNAM Display (LIDB) information in the network for Bandwidth TNs managed within the customer’s account. This capability works within the same asynchronous work-order mechanism as is used for managing other delay-prone system interactions, where a “work-order” is created by the initial API call, and used as a reference for tracking and confirming the subsequent states, and the ultimate success and failure of the result.

Calling Name Display Update (LIDB)

The Request to add LIDB information to the TNs in an account is made by a POST request to the /lidbs resource associated with an account. This request contains a set of requests, each one specific to an individual TN on the account.

Directory Listing and Directory Assistance (DLDA)

The DLDA service allows the association of a name and address listing with a Telephone Number or Telephone Numbers in the Bandwidth Phone Number Phone Number system. The DLDA API follows the asynchronous order processing request model described elsewhere in this document, where a request is submitted, an order ID is returned as an ID of that request or order, and then the request is fulfilled in the background. The status of the request is reflected in the status of the order, and can be queried at any time.

DLDA Fields

There are a number of fields involved in submitting a DLDA order, summarized in the table below:

Field Name Field Meaning and Values API Element required
Listed Telephone Number 10 Digit US Number <TelephoneNumber> y
Listing Type Listed (in DA & Dir)NonListed (in DA Only),NonPublished (No DA & No Dir) <ListingType> y
Type of Account Residential orBusiness <SubscriberType> y
Listed Name Last Last Name or First Name of Business <LastName> y
Listed Name First First Name or Remaining Name of Business <FirstName>
Listed Name First 2 First name of Second Party. It will be appended to the First Name with an "&" <FirstName2>
Designation Atty, Plmbr, etc… <Designation>
Title of Lineage Jr, Sr, III, IV, etc… <TitleOfLineage>
Title of Address Rev, Sgt, etc… <TitleOfAddress>
Title of Address2 Dr, etc.. <TitleOfAddress2>
Title of Lineage for Dual Name Jr, Sr, III, IV, etc… <TitleOfLineageName2>
Title of Address 1 for Dual Name Rev, Sgt, etc… <TitleOfAddressName2>
Title of Address 2 for Dual Name Dr, etc.. <TitleOfAddress2Name2>
Place Listing As Business Name Sorting String. This will be used as a string to control the sorting of the Listing if the Business Name above would not yield the correct results. For example, if 1040 Tax was the listed name; the PLA would be populated as either One Zero Forty Tax, Ten Forty Tax, or One Zero Four Zero Tax. The words within the PLA field will tell the publishers how to alphabetize the listed name. <PlaceListingAs>
Address Indicator Used to control whether the address is listed or not. <ListAddress> y
Listed Address House Number Prefix Valid USPS Prefix <HousePrefix>
Listed Address House Number Valid USPS House Number <HouseNumber>
Listed Address Street No Suffix Valid USPS Street Number Suffix <HouseSuffix>
Listed Address Street Directional N = North, S = South, E = East, W = West, NE = Northeast,NW = Northwest, SE = Southeast, SW = Southwest <PreDirectional>
Listed Address Street Name Valid USPS Street Name <StreetName>
Listed Address Street Thoroughfare St, Rd, Ct, Dr, etc… <StreetSuffix>
Listed Address Street Directional Suffix N = North, S = South, E = East, W = West, NE = Northeast,NW = Northwest, SE = Southeast, SW = Southwest <PostDirectional>
Listed Address Location Suite 320, Apartment 104A, 2nd Floor, 3rd Level, etc. <AddressLine2>
Listed Address City Valid USPS Community <City> y
Listed Address State Valid USPS State <StateCode> y
Listed Address Zip Code Valid USPS Zip Code, zip plus code or international zip code <Zip> y

Creating and Managing a DLDA Order

A DLDA order is created with a POST to the /dldas resource of the account. The dldas resource represents the requests made to the Bandwidth Phone Number API to add or otherwise manage a request to associate a name and street address with the telephone number. This API allows the creation and observation of a DLDA work order that causes the update of name and address information in a network Database.

Retrieving the history of a DLDA order

The history of a DLDA order can be retrieved with a GET on the /history resource, using the API signature: /accounts/{accountId}/dldas/{orderid}/history

Checking DLDA information associated with a TN

The GET method retrieves detailed information about the phone number.

GET /tns/{tn}/tndetails retrieves detailed information about the phone number.

In addition to the name and address information inherent in a DLDA update, the DLDA information associated with the TN includes a value that indicates whether the DLDA information has been successfully registered with the Listing provider, or is in some other state. Valid values for the <Status> element are:

Status Description
Success The information reported in the payload is the information that has been successfully registered with the Listing Provider. If a subsequent attempt has been made and failed, the original successful status and information will be retained. The failure can be interpreted based on the order state.
Failed The only attempt to update DLDA information for this TN has failed, and there is no DLDA information associated with the TN with the Listing Provider.
Pending-Editable An attempt to update DLDA information with the Listing Provider is in progress, but can be altered.
Pending-Locked An attempt to update DLDA information with the Listing Provider is in progress, but cannot be changed at this time. A new order will be required once the current attempt succeeds or fails.

If the <Status> of the DLDA order impacting the TN is transient, indicating that there is an order in process and the outcome is inconclusive, the DLDA information will be replaced with a link to the order currently processing a DLDA change for that TN. This will be the case if the status is Pending-Editable or Pending-Locked.

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