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Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Barry N. Dow, Hampshire, GB;

Peter J. Johnson, Hampshire, GB;

Fenglian Xu, Hampshire, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/56 (2006.01); H04M 15/06 (2006.01); H04M 3/436 (2006.01); H04M 3/22 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/436 (2013.01); H04M 3/2281 (2013.01); H04M 3/42059 (2013.01); H04M 3/42102 (2013.01); H04M 2203/6027 (2013.01);
Abstract

An aspect includes verifying a telephone caller origin carried out at a security application. The verifying includes activating a security process during an active telephone call to a user received at a first call identifier, accessing registered user service providers to obtain contact details of a registered service provider purporting to be the origin of the active telephone call, and sending a query to the obtained contact details of the registered service provider. The query includes the first call identifier. The verifying also includes receiving a returned query result confirming or denying that the telephone call is from the registered service provider.


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