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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2014
Lookout, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen J. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ankur Bharatbhushan Nandwani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rohan Nagarakere Ramakrishna, Waterloo, CA;
Brian James Buck, Livermore, CA (US);
Kesava Abhinav Yerra, San Francisco, CA (US);
LOOKOUT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques are provided for managing and categorizing undesired phone calls and text messages. In a specific implementation, information indicating that an electronic communication received at a mobile communications device of each user in the crowd should belong in a specific category is received from a crowd. If a number of users in the crowd exceeds a threshold value, information identifying the electronic communication is stored in a database as belonging in the specific category. The database is provided to a mobile communications device of a user, where when the electronic communication is transmitted to the mobile communications device of the user, the electronic communication is blocked at the mobile communications device of the user because the electronic communication is in the specific category.