Unsolicited communication mitigation
AssigneeInterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
InventorsSteven J. Goldberg, Kamel M. Shaheen, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for mitigating unwanted communication are disclosed. A request to establish communications is received at a first Protection Against Unsolicited Communications in Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (PUC) server. The PUC server determines whether to block the communication. If the communication is blocked, the sender is informed and a record of the blocked communication may be stored. Alternatively, the communication may be delivered to a subsequent PUC server (along with appended information about the sender), the receiver or sent to storage.
Claims14
A method for protecting against unsolicited communications comprising:
- receiving a message by a first protection against unsolicited communications (PUC) server;
- evaluating the message based on policy information;
- blocking the message based on the evaluation of the message, wherein the evaluation is based on known or acquired information;
- and
- forwarding the message with appended sender information on a condition that the message was not blocked, wherein the appended information is used to evaluate the message.
A protection against unsolicited communications (PUC) server comprising:
- a transceiver configured to send and receive a message;
- a processor configured to process the message;
- the transceiver further configured to append sender information to the message;
- the processor further configured to evaluate the message based at least in part on sender information;
- a database configured to store information;
- a session initiation protocol (SIP) server configured to facilitate receiving and sending the message;
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- a media proxy server configured to establish a media connection for transmission of the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.