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Blocking unsolicited calls from CallerID-spoofing autodialing devices

  • US 10,097,688 B2
  • Filed: 07/07/2017
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of deterring unsolicited telephone calls, the method comprising:

  • in response to user input received by a telephone switch from a telephone at a destination telephone number during a first call from an originating telephone number and terminated to the destination telephone number by the telephone switch, capturing, with a computer system, call processing data associated with the first call;

    identifying, with the computer system and based at least in part on the call processing data, an originating entity of the first call;

    adding, with the computer system, information about the originating entity to a database of telephone numbers that originate unsolicited telephone calls;

    determining, at the computer system, that the originating entity associated with the originating telephone number has been warned previously about unsolicited telephone calls; and

    imposing a penalty on the originating entity in response to determining that the originating entity has been warned previously and continues to originate unsolicited telephone calls, wherein imposing a penalty comprises generating a call detail record to bill one or more of the unsolicited telephone calls to the originating entity and sending a bill to the originating entity for the one or more of the unsolicited telephone calls.

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