Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Call filtering to a user equipment
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Application No.: US16398350Application Date: 2019-04-30
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Publication No.: US10764433B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Henry J. Collinson , Julie E. Stalley , Tom Waterton
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts, LLP
- Agent William Hartwell
- Main IPC: H04M1/56
- IPC: H04M1/56 ; H04M15/06 ; H04M3/436 ; H04M3/42 ; H04M1/663

Abstract:
A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190260874A1 CALL FILTERING TO A USER EQUIPMENT Public/Granted day:2019-08-22
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