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Database service for telemarketers to screen and block selected telecommunication messages

  • US 7,099,444 B1
  • Filed: 04/15/2004
  • Issued: 08/29/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing an updated database service to be available to third party subscribers, including maintaining a listing of undesirable destinations, said system comprising:

  • a directory identifying the third party subscribers to the updated database service;

    a database for listing the undesirable destinations, said database accessible to the third party subscribers; and

    a switch device connected to said database to disable any particular telecommunication initiated by a communication sender on behalf of a third party subscriber that is directed to an undesirable destination listed in the database,wherein said switch device adds a code identifier to the telecommunication, said code identifier preventing completion of a telecommunication to an undesirable destination listed in the database.

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