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• US 9,319,391 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wentworth, Brett, Fraley, Taylor, Keating, Mike, Drew, Dale, Fable, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Armouche, Hadi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khan, Sher A
• Application Number:
  US13/827,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20140041017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,132 Days
• Field of Search: 726 2- 5, 726/17
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for providing account information for a telephone number. All users are authenticated to ensure they may access the account information. Once authenticated, the user provides one or more telephone numbers that they would like to retrieve account information for. The system searches for the telephone number and if found, checks to ensure that the telecommunications provider services the phone number. When the telecommunications provider is the provider for the phone number, the record is retrieved and sent to the user.

Claims

1. A method for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider, comprising:

authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to receive telephone account information from a telecommunication provider by;

receiving an email address from the user;

comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains; and

emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing a telephone number;

receiving the telephone number from the user at the webpage;

searching for the telephone number in a telecommunications provider database;

verifying the telephone number is a customer of the telecommunications provider;

retrieving account information associated with the telephone number from the telecommunications provider database; and

providing the account information to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

searching for the telephone number in a secondary database when the telephone number is not found in the telecommunication provider database and retrieving the account information from the secondary database.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein verifying the telephone number is serviced by the telecommunications provider comprises analyzing a telecommunications provider name included in the retrieved account information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, verifying that the telephone number is a valid United States of America telephone number by comparing the telephone number to a valid United States of America telephone number format.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieved account information comprises at least one account entry, and further comprising, formatting the retrieved account information by creating a label identifying an information contained in each of the at least one account entry.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one account entry comprises at least one of:

an account holder name;

a street address;

an account payment record; and

a telecommunications provider name.

7. A system for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider comprising:

a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory, the memory storing instructions for execution on the processor, the instructions configured to cause the processor to;

authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to receive telephone account information from a telecommunication provider by;

receiving an email address from the user;

comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains; and

emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing a telephone number;

receiving the telephone number from the user at the webpage;

searching for the telephone number in a telecommunications provider database;

verifying the telephone number is a customer by the telecommunications provider;

retrieving account information associated with the telephone number from the telecommunications provider database; and

providing the account information to the user.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

searching for the telephone number in a secondary database when the telephone number is not found in the telecommunication provider database and retrieving the account information from the secondary database.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein verifying the telephone number is serviced by the telecommunications provider comprises analyzing a telecommunications provider name included in the retrieved account information.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising, verifying that the telephone number is a valid United States of America telephone number by comparing the telephone number to a valid United States of America telephone number format.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the retrieved account information comprises at least one account entry, and further comprising, formatting the retrieved account information by creating a label identifying an information contained in each of the at least one account entry.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one account entry comprises at least one of:

an account holder name;

a street address;

an account payment record; and

a telecommunications provider name.

13. A method for automatically retrieving data associated with a telephone number by a telecommunications provider, comprising:

authenticating a user as a member of an agency that is authorized to view account information by;

receiving an email address from the user;

comparing a domain of the email address with a list of authorized domains; and

emailing the user at the email address a hyperlink to a webpage for providing the telephone number;

receiving from the user at the webpage the telephone number;

querying a first database for the telephone number;

verifying the telephone number is a customer of the telecommunications provider;

retrieving an account information associated with the telephone number; and

sending the account information to the user.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising searching for the telephone number in a secondary database when the telephone number is not found in the telecommunication provider database and retrieving the account information from the secondary database.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising, verifying that the telephone number is a valid United States of America telephone number by comparing the telephone number to a valid United States of America telephone number format.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising, wherein the retrieved account information comprises at least one account entry, and further comprising, formatting the retrieved account information by creating a label identifying an information contained in each of the at least one account entry.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the account information comprises at least one of an account holder'"'"'s, a street address, and a payment record.