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US 8,804,931 B2Granted
Phone number verification
AssigneeSkype
InventorsScott Petrack, Rahul Malegaonkar
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Abstract
A method of altering a caller line identification in a phone service is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via a user interface, a phone number from a user of the phone number. A to-be called phone number is then selected from a pool of phone numbers. The to-be called phone number is temporarily associated with the phone service for a selected period of time. The to-be called phone number is displayed on the user interface. Via the user interface, the user is requested to call back the displayed to-be called phone number within the selected period of time.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- altering a caller line identification in a phone service by at least:
- receiving, via a user interface, a phone number from a user of the phone number;
- selecting a to-be called phone number from a pool of phone numbers and temporarily associating the to-be called phone number with the phone service for a selected period of time;
- and
- displaying the to-be called phone number and a security code on the user interface, wherein via the user interface, the user is requested to call back the displayed to-be called phone number within the selected period of time and input the security code to verify that the to-be called phone number is authorized to be used by the user as an alternate caller line identification with the phone service.
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A method comprising:
- altering a caller line identification in a phone service by at least:
- receiving, via a user interface, a phone number input by a user of the phone number to designate as an alternate caller line identification with a phone service;
- outputting a second phone number on the user interface for the user to call to verify that the input phone number is available to the user for use as the alternate caller line identification;
- receiving a phone call from the phone number at the second phone number;
- and
- verifying, based on the received phone call, that a caller identification of the received call has been authorized, by a phone network that carried the received phone call, as being available to the user.
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A method comprising:
- altering a caller line identification in a phone service by at least:
- receiving, via a user interface, a phone number from a user of the phone number to employ as an alternate caller line identification for phone service;
- randomly selecting and displaying security information for subsequent input by a user to verify that the phone number is authorized to be used by the user as the alternate caller line identification with the phone service;
- verifying authorization of the phone number to be used by at least:
- placing a phone call to the phone number;
- requesting input of the security information by the user via the phone call;
- and
- receiving input from the user in response to the requesting and comparing the input with the security information that is selected and displayed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.