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At+t Corp.

Christopher John Watkins

John Stewart Denker

A call contact platform (CCP) is provisioned with handles that belong to call recipients. Each recipient can have any number of handles in the CCP and each handle is associated with conditions under which a call employing the handle may be established. Specifically, when a party supplies a handle to a telecommunication network (previously given to the party by the call recipient), the network contacts the CCP and interacts with it as required in conformance with stored instructions. If appropriate, the CCP instructs the telecommunication network to establish a connection. A recipient can also give a party a handle that includes a message, where the handle is not prestored in the CCP. After the network contacts the CCP, the party provides the message, the CCP extracts instructions from the message, or retrieves instructions with the help of the message, and, as before, causes the telecommunication network to establish a connection, if appropriate. A party can also obtain a handle for a call recipient pursuant to predefined interactions with the telecommunication network that provide information specified by the call recipient.

Method for separately permissioned communication

A method of automatic verification of personal identity is provided. The method includes the automatic generation of cue-response pairs and the allocation of such cue-response pairs to authorized people. Verification of the identity of an applicant as an authorized person is achieved by presenting the cues from one or more cue-response pairs previously allocated to the authorized person to an applicant and verifying replies entered by the applicant by comparing the replies with the responses in the cue-response pairs. A person can more easily remember cue-response associations than passwords. This knowledge may be tested by presenting any of the cues to an applicant and asking for the corresponding response. In this manner, the present invention enhances the level of security of methods of automatic verification of personal identity.

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London, United Kingdom

Christopher John Watkins