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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:
Sep. 06, 1994

Filed:

Nov. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Eric A Johnson, Longmont, CO (US);

Michael D Liss, Nederland, CO (US);

Flemming B Jensen, Sandy, UT (US);

Assignee:

Coral Systems, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455 331 ; 455 531 ; 455 677 ; 379 60 ;
Abstract

An apparatus for detecting potentially fraudulent telecommunication activity, comprising a digital computer; interface, operatively connected to the digital computer, for receiving a call information record for each call involving a particular subscriber; comparator operating within the digital computer, for comparing a parameter of the particular subscriber's current usage with a subscriber-specific pattern of the particular subscriber's historical usage; and an output for outputting an indication of a potentially fraudulent call based upon a result of the comparison performed by the comparator.


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