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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Caroline J. Thomas, Eastleigh, GB;
Thomas J. Waterton, Southampton, GB;
Liam White, Hook, GB;
Joshua E. Vines, Telford, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism for filtering communication including receiving an incoming call from a calling party, the incoming call being directed to a called party. The mechanism further comprises obtaining calling party information comprising a value of at least one descriptive parameter of the calling party and obtaining historical called party information relating to past activities of the called party. One or more call-handling rules are generated based on the historical called party information, each call-handling rule defining how to handle an incoming call based on a descriptive parameter of a calling party. The calling party information is processed according to the one or more call-handling rules to determine how to handle the received incoming call.