Vonage Network, LLC

Vonage Business Limited

Vishal Patel

Nirav J Kadakia

Tzahi Efrati

Zhiyu Guo

Jason Farkas

Stephen Van Saders

Chakrapani Gorrepati

Michael South

Eugene Peter Cannon

Richard Petillo

David Michael Workman

William Lonergan

Chakarapani Gorrepati

Systems and methods for preventing fraud in an IP based telephony system include noting when an IP based telephony device sent to a new customer is not installed and registered with the system. If a new customer never attempts to register a device which was sent to the new customer, the system will assume that the new customer submitted false or erroneous address information. A new customer is prevented from taking any actions that would result in new charges until the new customer has registered an IP device sent to the new customer. Likewise, the system will act to prevent a phone verification service from reaching a new customer at his newly assigned telephone number until after the new customer has registered an IP based telephony device sent to the new customer.

Systems and methods for preventing fraud in an internet protocol telephony system

A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, and a database connected to the database manager. In one embodiment of the invention, the group call administrator identifier and one or more group call invitee identifiers is a telephone number. A method includes using call information from the database to initiate conference call connections and an administrator call connection to facilitate a conference call in which the administrators call connections and the participants connections are joined to allow communications between the participants and the administrator.

Method and apparatus for providing bridgeless conferencing services

A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, and a database connected to the database manager. In one embodiment, the group call administrator identifier and one or more group call invitee identifiers is a telephone number. The server responds to a group call request by initiating a first group call connection and initiating at least one or more second group call connections to join a group call administrator and at least one group call invitee. A method includes using call information from a database to initiate conference call connections and an administrator call connection to facilitate a conference call in which the administrators call connections and the participants connections are joined to allow communications between the participants and the administrator.

Methods for secure transmission of data during a communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method includes establishing a secure voice communication session between a first electronic device and second electronic device in a communications network, and sending secure data over the established voice communication session using information associated with the established voice communication session.

Secure transmission of media during a communication session

Methods of addressing problems in a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephony system include collecting data on network events, analyzing the data, and taking corrective action when possible. If an IP telephony device is registering with the VOIP telephony system more frequently than necessary, which can indicate the IP telephony device is unnecessarily jumping between proxy services, the IP telephony device is instructed to re-initialize itself. If an IP telephony device sends two successive stay alive registration messages to a proxy server from different ports of a router, which can indicate that a router pinhole is closing between stay alive messages, then the IP telephony device is instructed to send stay alive registration messages more frequently. If data packet statistics indicate that an IP telephony device is experiencing a jitter problem, the IP telephony device is instructed to increase the size of a data buffer for incoming data packets. If data packet statistics indicate that an IP telephony device is experiencing an enduring bandwidth problem or an enduring data packet loss problem, the IP telephony device is instructed to adopt a new encoding algorithm with greater data compression.

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New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Vishal Patel