Identifying, screening, and blocking of calls from problematic telecommunications carriers and number blocks

    公开(公告)号:US11973898B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US17743869

    申请日:2022-05-13

    Applicant: YouMail, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04M3/4365 H04M1/573 H04M1/575 H04M1/663

    Abstract: A method and systems for identifying communicators as wanted or unwanted based on communications from such communicators, the method comprising determining communications from phone numbers as being unwanted by analyzing communication content features of communications associated with unwanted communicators, identifying telecommunications carriers that acquired the phone numbers, computing scores for the telecommunications carriers based on an amount of the determined unwanted communications from the phone numbers are unwanted, intercepting an inbound communication from a given phone number, identifying the given phone number is associated with a given one of the telecommunications carriers, and configuring handling of communications from the phone number based on a score of the given telecommunications carrier.

    VIRTUAL TELEPHONY ASSISTANT
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180131799A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-10

    申请号:US15802699

    申请日:2017-11-03

    Abstract: Examples are disclosed for screening an inbound telephony call to a called party. At a communications server, an inbound telephony call intended for a called party's telephone number is received and checked against a whitelist database and a blacklist database. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the blacklist database, the communications server automatically routes the call to a voicemail system or spam folder associated with the called party's telephone number. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the whitelist database, the communications server determines whether the called party is available to receive the call. Otherwise, when the caller ID of the inbound call does not match a telephone number contained in either the whitelist database or the blacklist database, the communications server prompts the caller for additional information.

    System and method for telephone operation in quiet mode

    公开(公告)号:US09954999B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-24

    申请号:US14853704

    申请日:2015-09-14

    Inventor: Holger Janssen

    Abstract: A method and system for automatically changing the operation of signaling features in a telephone are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing, in a first handset of a telephone system, quiet mode settings that specify a start time and an end time for a quiet mode signaling feature; wirelessly transmitting, from the first handset of the telephone system to a second handset of the telephone system, the quiet mode settings that specify the start time and the end time for the quiet mode signaling feature; and updating quiet mode settings for the quiet mode signaling feature in the second handset in response to receiving quiet mode settings from the first handset, and wherein the first handset and the second handset of the telephone system self-check the status of their quiet mode settings.

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