Systems and methods for controlling telephony communications
AssigneeVonage Network LLC
InventorTzahi EFRATI
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Abstract
A telephony communication system prevents an incoming telephony communication directed to a user from being completed if the user is not authorized to communicate with the calling party. Likewise, a telephony system prevents a user from completing an outgoing telephony communication directed to a called party if the user the user is not authorized to communicate with the called party. The telephony communication system also electronically monitors a telephony communication between first and second parties and censors portions of the telephony communication to terminates the telephony communication if predetermined keywords appear in the communication.
Claims17
A method of determining whether to complete a telephony communication, comprising:
- receiving a telephony communication setup request from a calling party requesting that a telephony communication be completed to a called party;
- receiving spoken audio input from the called party;
- determining an identity of the called party based on the received spoken audio input;
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- determining whether to complete the requested telephony communication based, at least in part, on information related to the identity of the called party.
A system for determining whether to complete a telephony communication, comprising:
- means for receiving a telephony communication setup request from a calling party requesting that a telephony communication be completed to a called party;
- means for receiving spoken audio input from the called party;
- means for determining an identity of the called party based on the received spoken audio input;
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- means for determining whether to complete the requested telephony communication based, at least in part, on information related to the identity of the called party.
A system for determining whether to complete a telephony communication, comprising:
- a setup request handling unit that receives a telephony communication setup request from a calling party requesting that a telephony communication be completed to a called party;
- an identity determining unit that receives spoken audio input from the called party and that determines an identity of the called party based on the received spoken audio input, wherein the setup request handling unit determines whether to complete the requested telephony communication based, at least in part, on information related to the identity of the called party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.