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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Rebekah Johnson, Grand Bay, AL (US);
Baron Morvant, Mobile, AL (US);
William Corey Howard, Citronelle, AL (US);
Rebekah Johnson, Grand Bay, AL (US);
Baron Morvant, Mobile, AL (US);
William Corey Howard, Citronelle, AL (US);
West Corporation, Omaha, NE (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining whether to perform telephone call blocking. One example method of operation provides initiating a telephone call from a call server, determining whether the call is a solicitation call and determining the area code of the call and performing a lookup operation of the area code in a call suppression database. The method may also include retrieving a call block entry for a current day from the call suppression database, and comparing the area code to the call block entry for the current day to determine whether the call should be blocked.