Methods and systems for identifying calls connected without answer supervision
and for automatically generating billing information for these calls are disclosed.
A monitoring device copies signaling messages associated with calls. The signaling
messages are correlated into call detail records. The call detail records are analyzed
to identify calls connected without answer supervision. In one implementation,
calls that exceed a predetermined duration and for which no answer message was
returned from the terminating end office are identified as calls without answer
supervision. For these calls, billing records may be generated and forwarded to
a network billing center.