US 9,001,985 B2 · Method of and system for discovering and reporting trustworthiness and credibility of calling party number information

Abstract

A method of and system for discovering and reporting the trustworthiness and credibility of calling party number information, such as Automatic Number Identification (ANI) or Calling Number Identification (Caller ID) information, or for inbound telephone calls. The disclosed method entails the use of real time telephone network status and signaling, network data, locally stored data, and predictive analytics. Practice of the disclosed method is neither detectable by nor intrusive to the calling party, and the method can be implemented into existing enterprise, telecommunications, and information service infrastructures.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method of determining a source origin confidence metric of a calling party number or billing number associated with an incoming call to a called party telephonic device from a calling party telephonic device, comprising:

receiving by an electronic system associated with the called party telephonic device the calling party number or billing number, wherein the electronic system receives the calling party number or billing number from the called party telephonic device;
after receiving the calling party number or billing number and before the incoming call is answered, gathering by the electronic system associated with the called party telephonic device operational status information associated with the calling party number or billing number, and
determining by the electronic system associated with the called party telephonic device the source origin confidence metric for the calling party number or billing number.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/567,592Filed 6 Aug 2012 · continuation

Priority

19 May 2009

Published

US 2012/0294435 A122 Nov 2012

Granted

7 Apr 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04M 15/06
Recording calls , or communications in printed, perforated or other permanent form: recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called…
H04M 15/47
Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless…: fraud…
H04M 15/83
Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless…:…
H04M 15/8351
Time or frequency of notifications, e.g. Advice of Charge [AoC]: before establishing a communication

Family

Application61/179,629Us provisional application · filed 19 May 2009

Application12/783,405Parent of this continuation · filed 19 May 2010

US 2012/0294435 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Nov 2012

US 8,238,532 B1Parent of this continuation

US 9,001,985 B2This patent

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Method of and system for discovering and reporting trustworthiness and credibility of calling party number information

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Method of and system for discovering and reporting trustworthiness and credibility of calling party number information

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Abstract

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