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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160218 | Event driven call generation A system, method, and computer readable medium for event driven call generation, comprises, monitoring a database transaction, detecting a suspect pattern in the monitored database transactions, and generating a telephone call based upon the detected suspect pattern... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8102981 | Alerting for long duration sessions in communication networks Communication networks and associated methods and systems are disclosed that provide duration alerting for communication sessions to subscribers. A communication network of the invention comprises a charging system and a network management system. The charging syste... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8064580 | Telephony system and method with improved fraud control Inmate communications systems provide a feature-rich platform with a high degree of flexibility and security employing call control facilities located off institutional premises. Authentication processes for calling and called party verification include biometric te... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050393 | Method and apparatus for evaluating possible 3-way call events The likelihood that a called party to a telephone call has forwarded the call to another party, or has conferenced the call to include another party is estimated by requiring that the called party supply a first signal, illustratively a first DTMF signal, later requ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8027439 | Self-calibrating fraud detection A method for dynamically updating a model is described. The method includes accessing a model that specifies expected characteristics for a transaction. The model includes variables associated with fraud. The method also includes receiving at least one value for eac... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7961857 | Network assurance analytic system A network assurance analytics (NAA) system and method is disclosed. The NAA can be part of a risk analytic for telecom (RAFT) program. The NAA system is configured to monitor telecommunications networks, detect errors or fraud in those telecommunications networks, a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949111 | Call routing method A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7912192 | Arrangement for managing voice over IP (VoIP) telephone calls, especially unsolicited or unwanted calls Trust ratings are embedded in certificates of calling devices in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system. A method of managing trust ratings involves automatically accumulating complaints concerning VoIP calls initiated from calling devices, and ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7801288 | Method and apparatus for fraud detection A fraud detection method for generating a first fraud or fraud attempt probability, within an at least one captured or recorded interaction, is provided. The method comprises a scoring step for scoring an at least one voice belonging to an at least one tested speake... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783019 | Method and apparatus for providing fraud detection using geographically differentiated connection duration thresholds An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A threshold corresponding to a geographic location is set. The threshold corresponds to duration of a call supporting data communications. It is determined whether the call duration exce... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7760862 | Domestic to international collect call blocking A method and device for preventing fraud in collect calls from a domestic origin point to an international terminating point through a long-distance telecommunications system is described. In the system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is add... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760861 | Method and apparatus for monitoring service usage in a communications network A method and apparatus for detecting abnormal calling activity in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, usage data associated with at least one phone number is obtained from the communications network. The usage data is subsequently processed to ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7548615 | Rate validation system and method The present invention facilitates automated audits for systems storing travel services rates based on special or negotiated pricing structures. The invention provides a system and method by which a customer and/or broker of travel related services may invoke an audi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7512221 | System and method for the detection and termination of fraudulent services A system is disclosed for the automatic detection of fraudulent activity on a transaction network, for which each transaction over the network has an associated identifier. In one embodiment, the system includes voice comparison means for comparing a first sampled v... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7471780 | Configurable profiling of data In one embodiment, a method of configurably profiling data uses system comprising a pre-processor, a profiler, a post-processor and database. The pre-processor receives data and feedback data and performs configurable first calculations thereon to create data relati... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7457401 | Self-learning real-time prioritization of fraud control actions A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched, the system generates an alert. Pending alerts for a customer form a cas... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440558 | Telephony security system A system and method of telephony resource management and security for monitoring and/or controlling and logging access between an enterprise's end-user stations and their respective circuits into the public switched telephone network (PSTN). One or more rules are de... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433855 | System and method for detecting and managing fraud A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430287 | System and method for detecting unauthorized access using a voice signature A method for detecting unauthorized access is provided. The method includes receiving a voice input associated with a request to access an account. A request voice signature corresponding to the voice input associated with the request is generated. An authorized voi... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424103 | Method of telecommunications call record correlation providing a basis for quantitative analysis of telecommunications call traffic routing A method of identifying arbitrage includes determining whether originating and terminating call detail records (CDRs) are correlated and obtaining correlated candidate pairs from the determined CDRs; establishing whether a correlated candidate pair of the obtained c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409049 | Network-based securing of added-value services against automated connections A network-based verification of call connections is provided between a telecommunications subscriber terminal and a telecommunications service device selected by a service call number. This verification provides a way of enabling secure protection against an undesir... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406159 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically populating signaling-based access control database Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically populating a signaling-based access control database based on output from a fraud detection application are disclosed. According to one method, a fraud detection application detects fraud based on cal... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406161 | System and method for real-time fraud detection within a telecommunication network Real time detection of the fraudulent use of a telecommunications network is accomplished by analyzing data for each call that is occurring within the network. A signal protocol receiver is used to collect signaling protocol for each call that is occurring within th... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7388948 | AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA) A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony office and that are routed over an inter-exchange carrier telephony facility is disclosed. The method comprises collectin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386105 | Method and apparatus for fraud detection An apparatus and method for detecting a fraud or fraud attempt in a captured interaction. The method comprising a selection step in which interactions suspected as capturing fraud attempts are selected for further analysis, and assigned a first fraud probability, an... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386510 | System and method for detecting fraudulent calls A system and method that determines when fraudulent activity, such as relates to a credit card, etc., may be imminent. The system and method of the invention allows for warning a credit issuer of probable fraudulent activity at an early stage. Probable fraudulent ac... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376431 | Location based fraud reduction system and method Likelihood of fraud is reduced by having at least one of an identifier of a location from where a request is submitted or information that can lead to identification of the location, submitted with or in addition to a request. Then, determination is made to whether ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366289 | Domestic origination to international termination country set logic A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7340045 | Method of billing a communication session conducted over a computer network A method of billing a communication session between a user and a value-added service. A request is received from a user for a communication session, such as a circuit-switched call, a computer-network telephony call or a multimedia session, between the user and a va... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333921 | Scalable, concurrent, distributed sensor system and method A sensor system and method for collecting and analyzing sensor data transmitted by various distributed sensors in a secure, scalable, and efficient manner. Sensors having sensor data to transmit establish concurrent connections with a central server that is configur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333796 | Wireless telephone service A method for providing a wireless telephone service includes providing a wireless handset having an associated telephone number, and a dedicated programmable wireless switch coupled to a public switched telephone network and a billing server. The handset communicate... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327837 | Call routing method A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313545 | System and method for detecting fraudulent calls Systems and methods for evaluating transactions to determine if suspicious activities are possibly present. Various methods include providing a reference designator list with information associated with one or more suspicious activities. Using the reference designat... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310816 | System and method for email screening A system and method for e-mail screening to prevent the spread of viruses and to compensate users for viewing unsolicited e-mails. Users have all incoming e-mails redirected to a e-mail screening site. When the user registers with the server of the present invention... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302250 | Method of recognizing fraudulent wireless emergency service calls In the method of recognizing fraudulent emergency calls from a mobile station, a mobile station originating an emergency call is identified based on a mobile equipment identity received from the mobile station. A count of emergency calls received from the identified... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289613 | Technique for selecting a profile to use to service a call A telephone call may have more than one identifier, e.g., a billing telephone number and a caller's telephone number, within its signaling stream. Each identifier may have an associated call servicing profile. The invention determines which of several call profiles ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289490 | Method for performing gate coordination on a per-call basis Gates for a call between a calling party and a called party are coordinated. A timer associated with a first gate opened at an originating network edge device is initiated. A first gate open message is sent from the originating network edge device to the terminating... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283619 | System and method for end-to-end communications tracing A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280982 | System and method for a fee address system A system relating to a fee address is described. A method of directing mail to a public mailbox, determining a fee based upon the preferences of the mail recipient, receiving the fee and forwarding the mail to a private mailbox is also provided. Many different types... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266364 | Wireless communications unauthorized use verification system A subscriber determines and verifies using a simple and reliable unit whether or not unauthorized use such as cloning, etc. A fraud audit mode (fraud detection mode, fraud verification mode, and fraud stop mode) is provided on the subscriber data of the HLR in the U... | 09/04/2007 |
