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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. 06, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1992
Eric A Johnson, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael D Liss, Nederland, CO (US);
Flemming B Jensen, Sandy, UT (US);
Coral Systems, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);
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.