Systems and methods for providing a plurality of advanced telephony
services using a metaservice are described. In an embodiment of the
present invention, a service provider installs a metaservice on the
processor and associates the metaservice with a directory number on the
switch. The metaservice acts as a pseudo service. When the service
provider receives a subsequent request for an advanced telephony service,
the service associates the requested service with the directory number
through the metaservice, thereby avoiding many of the provisioning steps
that are conventionally required to set up each service.