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US 8,150,005 B1Granted
Method, architectures and technique for authentication of telephone calls
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
InventorsRobert Sayko, Martin Sliwicki
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Abstract
A method and system authenticates an authenticatee and provides an authentication to a recipient. The authenticatee may be either the called party or the calling party. A network platform or customer premise equipment may be utilized to provide information for authentication. Customer premise equipment provides the authentication to the recipient.
Claims16
A system for authenticating a first party of a telephone call between the first party and a second party, the system comprising:
- means for receiving signaling network data from the first party;
- means for authenticating, during the telephone call, that the first party is registered with an authentication service based on the signaling network data;
- means for transmitting a certificate representing an authentication of the first party to the second party, wherein the certificate provides an authentication level of the authentication of the first party and the certificate includes a reserve code number to be displayed to the second party;
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- means for providing to the second party a verbal announcement of a company and address of the first party in response to the second party entering the reserve code number during the telephone call.
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A method for authenticating a first party of a call between the first party and a second party, the method comprising:
- receiving signaling network data from the first party;
- authenticating, during the telephone call, that the first party is registered to an authentication service based on the signaling network data;
- transmitting a certificate representing an authentication of the first party to the second party, wherein the certificate provides an authentication level of the authentication of the first party and the certificate includes a reserve code number to be displayed to the second party;
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- providing to the second party a verbal announcement of a company and address of the first party in response to the second party entering the reserve code number during the telephone call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.