Call filtering to a user equipment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHenry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
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Abstract
A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
Claims19
A smartphone with a call filtering feature, comprising:
- a touchscreen display having a touch sensitive area, the touchscreen display configured to display a message received from another smartphone in a manner that allows a user to interact with the touch sensitive area to save the message as a description of a permitted caller;
- a memory operable to store the description of the permitted caller description;
- a processor, responsive to detecting an incoming call;
- a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the storage device contains program code executable by the processor via the memory device to implement a method for filtering a call, the method comprising:
- determining, by the processor, that search text in at least one hit found by a search engine matches the description of the permitted caller, based on a search of a caller identifier.
A method of call filtering for a smartphone, the method comprising:
- storing, by a processor of a computing system, a description of a permitted caller, wherein a touchscreen display having a touch sensitive area displays a message received from another smartphone to allow a user to select the message as the description of a permitted caller;
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- determining, by the processor, that search text in at least one hit found by a search engine matches the description of the permitted caller, based on a search of a caller identifier.
A computer system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory device coupled to the processor;
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- a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the storage device contains program code executable by the processor via the memory device to implement a method for filtering a call, the method comprising:
- storing, by the processor, a description of a permitted caller, wherein a touchscreen display of the computer system has a touch sensitive area that displays a message received from another computer system to allow a user to select the message as the description of a permitted caller;
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- determining, by the processor, that search text in at least one hit found by a search engine matches the description of the permitted caller, based on a search of a caller identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.