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US 11,563,860 B2Granted
Toll-free telecommunications and data management platform
AssigneeSomos, Inc.
InventorsSriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
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Abstract
A method for identifying a fraudulent phone number is provided. The method includes receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number, and responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number. The method further includes tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
Claims6
A method comprising:
- receiving report data that relates to a usage of a telecommunications number and indicates that the telecommunications number is associated with fraudulent activity based at least in part on the usage;
- storing at least part of the report data in a database;
- associating the stored at least part of the report data with a record in the database corresponding to the telecommunications number;
- creating a metadata tag that is associated with the telecommunications number;
- identifying criteria of a customer-desired telecommunications number based at least in part on the metadata tag and at least one datum derived, at least in part, from an application of predictive analytics applied to a history of prior actions of a customer;
- associating at least one telecommunications number in a number inventory with at least one search parameter;
- searching the number inventory for one or more telecommunications numbers having one or more parameters matching the metadata tag to generate one or more search results;
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- performing an action determined, at least in part, upon the application of predictive analytics applied to the history of prior actions of the customer.
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