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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:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 1/663 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/663 (2013.01); H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/1483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for filtering spam in an electronic device is provided. The method includes transmitting a request message inquiring whether a received call or message is spam to a server through a mobile communication network, in response to the received call or message being determined to be spam based on a response message received from the server, displaying an alert message, and storing a sender phone number of the received call or message in a spam phone number list.