Privacy screening service for telecommunications

Details Privacy screening service for telecommunications Privacy screening service for telecommunications

2006-03-28

2006-03-28

Matar, Ahmad F. (Department: 2642)

Telephonic communications

Special services

Call diversion

C379S211010, C379S207020, C379S207150

Reexamination Certificate

active

07020259

ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing privacy screening service during telephone calls. One method monitors a telephone call for a call screening request. The telephone call is from a calling telephone number to a called telephone number. An action is taken in response to the call screening request. The action could be playing an announcement, terminating the connection, forwarding to voice mail, storing the calling telephone number in a database, adding the calling telephone number to a Do Not Call list, updating a subscriber's profile with the calling telephone number, and/or storing the calling telephone number in a subscriber's blocked call list. The call screening request may comprise a Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, a softkey entry, and/or a data message.

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