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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/56 (2006.01); H04M 15/06 (2006.01); H04M 3/436 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 1/663 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/436 (2013.01); H04M 1/663 (2013.01); H04M 3/42059 (2013.01); H04M 2203/2094 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.