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AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorsBrett Wentworth, Taylor Fraley, Mike Keating, Dale Drew, John Fable
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Abstract
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for providing account information for a telephone number. All users are authenticated to ensure they may access the account information. Once authenticated, the user provides one or more telephone numbers that they would like to retrieve account information for. The system searches for the telephone number and if found, checks to ensure that the telecommunications provider services the phone number. When the telecommunications provider is the provider for the phone number, the record is retrieved and sent to the user.
Claims17
A method for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider, comprising:
- authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to receive telephone account information from a telecommunication provider by:
- receiving an email address from the user;
- comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains;
- and
- emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing a telephone number;
- receiving the telephone number from the user at the webpage;
- searching for the telephone number in a telecommunications provider database;
- verifying the telephone number is a customer of the telecommunications provider;
- retrieving account information associated with the telephone number from the telecommunications provider database;
- and
- providing the account information to the user.
A system for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider comprising:
- a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory, the memory storing instructions for execution on the processor, the instructions configured to cause the processor to:
- authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to receive telephone account information from a telecommunication provider by:
- receiving an email address from the user;
- comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains;
- and
- emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing a telephone number;
- receiving the telephone number from the user at the webpage;
- searching for the telephone number in a telecommunications provider database;
- verifying the telephone number is a customer by the telecommunications provider;
- retrieving account information associated with the telephone number from the telecommunications provider database;
- and
- providing the account information to the user.
A method for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider, comprising:
- authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to view account information by:
- receiving an email address from the user;
- comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains;
- and
- emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing the telephone number;
- receiving from the user at the webpage the telephone number;
- querying a first database for the telephone number;
- verifying the telephone number is a customer of the telecommunications provider;
- retrieving an account information associated with the telephone number;
- and
- sending the account information to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.