Telephone number deactivation process
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsShilpa Shetty, Jignesh K. Karia, Mukundan Sundararajan, Deepa Dubey, Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama, Vishal Awal
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Abstract
A system and method for deactivating telephone numbers are presented. The method includes, in response to a request to deactivate a telephone number, communicating a query to a blockchain for the telephone number, wherein a block on the blockchain identifies an organization that had sent a previous message to the telephone number. The method also includes determining, based on a response to the query, the organization and generating and activating a filter configured to stop a future message sent by the organization to the telephone number.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- in response to a request to deactivate a telephone number, communicating a query to a blockchain for the telephone number, wherein a block on the blockchain was added to the blockchain in response to an organization sending a first message to the telephone number, and wherein the block identifies the organization;
- identifying, based on a response to the query, the organization;
- and
- generating and activating, based on the block on the blockchain, a filter configured to stop a second message sent by the organization to the telephone number.
A system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
- in response to a request to deactivate a telephone number, communicate a query to a blockchain for the telephone number, wherein a block on the blockchain was added to the blockchain in response to an organization sending a first message to the telephone number, and wherein the block identifies the organization;
- identify, based on a response to the query, the organization;
- and
- generate and activate, based on the block on the blockchain, a filter configured to stop a second message sent by the organization to the telephone number.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- in response to a request to deactivate a telephone number, communicate a query to a blockchain for the telephone number, wherein a block on the blockchain was added to the blockchain in response to an organization sending a first message to the telephone number, and wherein the block identifies the organization;
- generate, based on the block on the blockchain, a filter configured to stop a message sent by the organization to the telephone number;
- sending a second message intended for the telephone number through the filter;
- and
- prevent the second message from being sent to the telephone number in response to determining that the filter caught the second message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.