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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2016
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventor:

Warren Johnson, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04M 1/253 (2006.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 80/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04L 45/08 (2013.01); H04M 1/2535 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04W 80/04 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Blocking of undesirable voice over internet protocol (VOIP) communications is disclosed. A communication screening service initiates operations to block a threat posed by a VOIP communication upon receiving the communication from a gateway server. The communication may include an audio/video conversation and/or an audio/video conference. Next, metadata and content of the communication is analyzed to detect a threat, such as a scamming scheme and/or a phishing scheme, from a sender of the communication. A rejection of the communication is generated to disrupt the threat associated with the communication. The rejection is transmitted to the gateway server to prompt the gateway server to block the communication.


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