Method and system for conditionally limiting communications
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorsJeffrey M. Sweeney, Jennifer D. Doyle
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Abstract
A server, system, and method configured to limit communications. The server includes a processor for executing a set of instructions and a memory for storing the set of instructions. The set of instructions are executed to receive a list of one or more communicating parties that are authorized to communicate with a user at any time, receive a selection to limit communications, determine whether an identifier associated with a communicating party is in the list in response to processing a communication, and connect the communication to a communications device in response to determining the identifier is in the list.
Claims20
A server configured to limit communications, the device comprising:
- a processor for executing a set of instructions;
- a memory in communication with the processor for storing the set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions are executed to:
- receive a list of one or more communicating parties that are authorized to communicate with a user at any time, receive a selection to limit communications, determine whether an identifier associated with a communicating party is in the list in response to processing a communication, wherein the communication is a real-time communication or a message, prevent the communication from being communicated to a communications device in response to determining the identifier is not in the list, wherein the communication is diverted if the communication is the real-time communication, and wherein the communication is queued for subsequent delivery to the communications device if the communication is the message;
- and connect the communication to the communications device in response to determining the identifier is in the list.
A method for limiting communications, the method comprising:
- receiving a list of one or more communicating parties that are authorized to communicate with a user at any time;
- receiving a selection to limit communications;
- determining whether an identifier associated with a communicating party is on the list in response to receiving a communication, wherein the communication is a real-time communication or a message;
- preventing the communication from being communicated to a communications device in response to determining the identifier is not in the list, wherein the communication is diverted if the communication is the real-time communication, and wherein the communication is queued for subsequent delivery to the communications device if the communication is the message;
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- connecting the communication to the communications device in response to determining the identifier is on the list.
A communication system for limiting communications, the system comprising:
- a server configured to receiving communications from a communications network, wherein the server includes logic configured to receive a list of one or more communicating parties that are authorized to communicate with a user at any time, receive a selection to limit communications, determine whether an identifier associated with a communicating party is in the list in response to processing a communication, wherein the communication is a real-time communication or a message, reject the communication in response to conditional criteria set by the user and determining the identifier is not on the list, wherein the communication is diverted if the communication is the real-time communication, and wherein the communication is queued for subsequent delivery to the communications device if the communication is the message;
- and connect the communication to a communications device in response to determining the identifier is in the list;
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- the communications device in communication with the server configured to receive at least a portion of the communications from the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.