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US 12,323,552 B2Granted
Systems and methods for tagging fraudulent phone numbers
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 including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number; and tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- receiving, via at least one processor configured by computer-readable instructions stored in at least one memory device, a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number from a telecommunications services management platform, wherein the telecommunications services management platform provides one or more services for the phone number,
- wherein the fraudulent activity includes spoofing, and wherein the spoofing includes an originating phone number that is not authentic;
- responsive to receiving, via the at least one processor, the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number;
- and
- tagging, via the at least one processor, the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
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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;
- and
- assigning a call route to the telecommunications number adapted to reduce a cost associated with the fraudulent activity, wherein the call route is determined based at least in part on a cost of using a particular carrier.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory device storing an application that adapts the at least one processor to:
- receive a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number from a telecommunications services management platform, wherein the telecommunications services management platform provides one or more services for the phone number,
- wherein the fraudulent activity includes spoofing, and wherein the spoofing includes an originating phone number that is not authentic;
- responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identify a record in a database corresponding to the phone number;
- and
- tag the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.