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US 2015/0103990 A1Published application
Network-based social telephony firewall
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorBRIAN LEE
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Abstract
A method receives a call from a device of a caller destined to a device of a subscriber of a communication network. The method connects the call to the device of the subscriber and then receives from the device of the subscriber an indication that the call is an undesirable call. The indication further includes a description of the call. The method then provides a reward to the subscriber when the indication further includes the description of the call.
Claims20
A method for processing a call, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor deployed in a communication network, the call from a device of a caller destined to a device of a subscriber of the communication network;
- connecting, by the processor, the call to the device of the subscriber;
- receiving, by the processor, from the device of the subscriber, an indication that the call is an undesirable call, wherein the indication further includes a description of the call as provided by the subscriber;
- and
- providing, by the processor, a notification of a reward to the subscriber when the indication further includes the description of the call.
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A method for filtering a call, comprising:
- receiving, by a processor deployed in a communication network, the call from a device of a caller destined to a device of a subscriber of the communication network;
- retrieving, by the processor, a profile of the subscriber that specifies a threshold for filtering the call from the device of the caller, wherein the threshold specifies a level of tagging, by other subscribers of the communication network, wherein the level of tagging is associated with a source identifier of the device of the caller being identified as a source of undesirable calls, wherein the threshold is determined by the subscriber, wherein a tag by a first of the other subscribers that is in a contact list of the subscriber is given a greater weight in determining the level of tagging as compared to a tag by a second of the other subscribers that is not in the contact list of the subscriber;
- determining, by the processor, the source identifier of the device of the caller satisfies the threshold;
- and
- filtering, by the processor, the call according to the profile of the subscriber when the source identifier of the device of the caller is determined to satisfy the threshold.
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A method for processing a call, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor of a device of a subscriber of a communication network, the call from a device of a caller via the communication network;
- obtaining, by the processor, an indication that the call is an undesirable call, wherein the indication further includes a description of the call;
- transmitting, by the processor, to the communication network the indication that includes the description of the call;
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- receiving, by the processor, from the communication network a notification of a reward to the subscriber in response to the transmitting to the communication network the indication that includes the description of the call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.