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US 9,854,090 B2Granted
Managing phone numbers in a telephony system
AssigneeRingCentral, Inc.
InventorsPavel Aleksandrovich Abushik, Niels Holgerovich Oya, Natalia Sergeevna Pavlova, Evgeniya Ivanovna Bachevskaya, Alexey Dmitrievich Tarkhin, Vlad Vendrow
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Abstract
Techniques are described for managing phone numbers associated with a telephony system to reduce the likelihood that calls or transmissions directed to a subscriber or endpoint to which a phone number was previously assigned are received by a new subscriber or endpoint to which that number is reassigned.
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A computer-implemented method for managing phone numbers associated with a telephony system, the method comprising:
- counting calls received by the telephony system that are directed to a first phone number associated with the telephony system, the first phone number having been placed in quarantine for a first quarantine period;
- causing a plurality of call attempts to be made to the first phone number from one or more test phone numbers;
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- where a first number of the calls received is below a threshold, a second number of the call attempts are successfully routed to the telephony system, and the first quarantine period for the first phone number has expired, designating the first phone number as available for reassignment in the telephony system.
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A telephony system, comprising:
- one or more data stores having account data stored therein, the account data associating a plurality of phone numbers of the telephony system with a plurality of accounts;
- one or more computing devices configured to:
- disassociate a first phone number of the plurality of phone numbers from a first account of the plurality of accounts;
- quarantine the first phone number for a first quarantine period;
- count calls received by the telephony system that are directed to the first phone number;
- cause a plurality of call attempts to be made to the first phone number from one or more test phone numbers;
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- where a first number of the calls received is below a threshold, a second number of the call attempts are successfully routed to the telephony system, and the first quarantine period for the first phone number has expired, designate the first phone number as available for reassignment in the telephony system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.