US 10,764,434 B1Granted

Phone alert for unauthorized call

AssigneeJoinesty, Inc.

InventorsRobert Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Stephen Michael Yoskowitz, Elder Donizetti Dos Santos, José Carlos De Souza Bueno, Jr.

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Abstract

The disclosed techniques enable selective forwarding and blocking of calls directed to an alias phone number based on a whitelist, as well as text message alerts triggered by phone calls from unauthorized originating numbers. More generally, the disclosed techniques enable an enterprise system to store contact phone numbers (i.e., alias phone numbers) for users while avoiding storing and managing personal phone numbers for the user. For example, the enterprise system may forward personal phone numbers to an aliasing server configured to generate alias phone numbers based on the personal phone number. The aliasing server may operate as a “middle man” that receives calls directed to the alias phone number and that forwards the calls to the personal phone number when appropriate. The enterprise system may store and maintain the alias phone numbers in lieu of the personal phone numbers.

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Dependent claims

A method for handling unauthorized phone calls to an alias phone number, the method comprising:

(A) receiving, at a aliasing server storing an alias map mapping a one or more alias phone numbers to a one or more user phone numbers and a one or more services, a signal representing a request to establish a telephone connection that (i) originates from an originating phone number, and (ii) is addressed to an alias phone number included in the one or more alias phone numbers;
(B) analyzing, at the aliasing server, a one or more whitelists for the one or more alias phone numbers to identify a whitelist for the alias phone number, wherein each whitelist in the one or more whitelists includes a set of authorized phone numbers for a different one of the one or more alias phone numbers;
(C) analyzing, at the aliasing server, the whitelist to determine whether or not a set of authorized phone numbers in the whitelist includes the originating phone number;
and
(D) when the set of authorized phone numbers does not include the originating phone number:
(i) preventing the aliasing server from establishing a phone call between the originating phone number and the user phone number;
(ii) analyzing, at the aliasing server, the alias map to identify a service mapped to the alias phone number;
and
(iii) generating and transmitting, from the aliasing server to a server associated with the service, a text message configured to notify the service that an unauthorized phone number called the alias phone number.

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An aliasing system for handling unauthorized phone calls directed to an alias phone number, the aliasing system comprising:

a communication interface;
one or more processors coupled to the communication interface;
one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more memories storing:
(i) an alias map mapping a one or more alias phone numbers to a one or more user phone numbers and a one or more services, and (ii) a one or more whitelists for the one or more alias phone number, each whitelist including a set of authorized phone numbers for a different one of the one or more alias phone numbers;
wherein the one or more memories further store computer readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
(A) receive, via the communication interface, a signal representing a request to establish a telephone connection that (i) originates from an originating phone number, and (ii) is addressed to an alias phone number;
(B) analyze the one or more whitelists to identify a whitelist for the alias phone number;
(C) analyze the whitelist to determine whether or not a set of authorized phone numbers in the whitelist includes the originating phone number;
and
(D) when the set of authorized phone numbers does not include the originating phone number:
(i) prevent the aliasing server from establishing a phone call between the originating phone number and the user phone number;
(ii) analyze the alias map to identify a service mapped to the alias phone number;
and
(ii) generate and transmit to a server associated with the service, via the communication interface, a text message configured to notify the service that an unauthorized phone number called the alias phone number.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/773,616Filed 27 Jan 2020 · us provisional application
Priority: 26 Sep 2019
Granted: 1 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification43 codes

H04M 3/436
Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers: arrangements for screening incoming calls , i.e. evaluating the characteristics…
G06F 16/10
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: file systems; File servers
G06F 16/22
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/31
Of unstructured textual data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures