UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT VIA MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20090083826A1
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Baribault, Gregory P.
• Application Number:
  US11/859,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20090083826A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1079 of unsolicited session attempts, e.g. SPIT
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/665 by checking the validity of a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

A system that can effectively screen or filter incoming communications to a mobile device is disclosed. The innovation can filter voice calls, emails, instant messages, text messages, etc. via a mobile device (e.g., cellular telephone, smartphone, personal digital assistant (PDA), notebook computer). In accordance with the innovation, callers (or senders) are prompted to prove their ‘identity’ as an acceptable (or authorized) identity in order to be permitted to communicate with a mobile device. Accordingly, the innovation prompts a caller (or sender) with a challenge that requires a human input (e.g., human interactive programming (HIP)), which can effectively filter automated machine communication as well as unwanted human communication such as spam. This filtering can be based on most any policy, rule, context-awareness factor.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates management of communication, comprising:

a human interactive program (HIP) component that generates a HIP challenge to an initiator of one of a real-time or non-real-time communication to a mobile device; and

an authentication component that processes a response to the HIP challenge and either accepts or denies the communication as a function of the response, wherein the authentication component is located within the mobile device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication is a voice call and the mobile device is a cellular telephone.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication is one of an electronic mail, an instant message, a text message, a voice call, or a video call.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is one of a cellular telephone, a smartphone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a portable computer.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a challenge generation component that establishes the HIP challenge that includes a plurality of factors in accordance with a policy or preference.

6. The system of claim 5, a subset of the factors solicits private information, biometric information, or secret information.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a response receipt component that accepts the response via an input component from the initiator of the communication.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the input component includes at least one of an optical device, a keyboard, a microphone, a physiological sensor or an environmental sensor.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a comparison component that generates an acceptance or denial result based upon an evaluation; and

an analysis component that establishes the evaluation based at least in part upon one of a policy, logic or context awareness.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning and reasoning (MLR) component that employs at least one of a probabilistic and a statistical-based analysis that infers an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

11. A computer-implemented method of managing incoming communication via a mobile device, comprising:

receiving an incoming communication from an initiator;

triggering a HIP challenge to the initiator;

receiving a HIP response from the initiator; and

accepting or rejecting the incoming communication based at least in part upon the HIP response.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising comparing the HIP response to at least one acceptable response.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising remotely accessing the at least one acceptable response for comparison to the HIP response.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising establishing context of the mobile device, wherein the context is employed in accepting or rejecting the incoming communication.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising accessing a plurality of sensory mechanisms to establish the context.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining type of the incoming communication; and

generating the HIP challenge based upon the type.

17. A computer-executable system that facilitates access to a mobile device, comprising:

means for receiving an incoming communication;

means for generating a HIP challenge to an initiator of the incoming communication;

means for analyzing a response to the HIP challenge; and

means for authenticating the incoming communication based upon the response.

18. The computer-executable system of claim 17, further comprising means for receiving the response to the HIP challenge.

19. The computer-executable system of claim 17, further comprising means for accessing a policy component, wherein the policy component defines whether to accept or deny the incoming communication based upon the HIP response.

20. The computer-executable system of claim 17, the incoming communication is a voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) call from the initiator.