Secured communication via location awareness

A computer-readable storage medium not including signals having computer executable instructions encoded thereon for confirming a caller's identity via location information exchanged over a digital voice conversation when executed, comprising:

• during a connection set-up phase to establish a call with the caller that occurs before establishing the digital voice conversation receiving identity information from a caller as part of a digital voice conversation;
• receiving a call connection request from the caller to establish the digital voice conversation;
• identifying location information necessary to verify the identity information and requesting the identified location information from the caller;
• after obtaining the identified location information from the caller over the digital voice conversation, confirming the identity information by verifying the identified location information obtained from the caller, wherein if the identity of the calling party is not confirmed within a satisfactory degree of certainty, rejecting the call connection request to establish the digital communication channel;
• presenting information including location information on a display for accepting/rejecting a call from the caller;
• after receiving the call connection request, requesting call connection routing information in addition to the location information from the caller comprising one or more of:
• a router IP address, connection points between the caller and a service provider, a device unique identifier, and IP trace-back information;
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• establishing the digital voice conversation with the caller.

A method for collecting information about a location of a calling device to verify a calling party in response to a call connection request for establishing a digital communication channel, comprising:

• during a connection set-up phase to establish a digital communication channel with the calling device that is used to exchange contextual information and voice information that occurs before establishing the digital communication channel for voice communication, performing operations comprising:
• receiving a call connection request from a calling device to establish the digital communication channel;
• receiving contextual information comprising a first set of location information from the calling device;
• obtaining a second set of location information that is necessary for verifying the first set of location information;
• evaluating the first set of location information by comparing it with the second set of location information in order to authenticate an identity of the calling party, wherein:
• when the identity of the calling party is not authenticated within a satisfactory degree of certainty, rejecting the call connection request to establish the digital communication channel;
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• if the identity of the calling party is authenticated within a satisfactory degree of certainty, accepting the call connection request for establishing a digital communication channel;
• presenting information including location information on a display that is used by a callee for accepting/rejecting a call from the caller;
• wherein the contextual information is exchanged during the connection set-up phase of the digital communication channel;
• after receiving the call connection request, requesting call connection routing information in addition to the first set of location information from the calling party comprising:
• a router IP address, connection points between the calling device and a service provider, a device unique identifier, and IP trace-back information;
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• establishing the digital communication with the caller for the voice communication when determined.