- Patent Title: Caller ID verification using call identification and block lists
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Application No.: US16289957Application Date: 2019-03-01
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Publication No.: US10440178B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Payas Gupta , Terry Nelms, II
- Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Agent Eric L. Sophir
- Main IPC: H04W12/06
- IPC: H04W12/06 ; H04M3/436 ; H04W4/16 ; H04M3/42

Abstract:
In an illustrative embodiment, a user device may block all the phone numbers used by an enterprise. When an enterprise wants to call the user, the enterprise may notify the user device through a separate secure channel that an enterprise phone number is in the process of making a phone call to the user device. The secure channel may include an authentication server that may request the user device to unblock the enterprise phone number. An incoming phone call from the enterprise phone number therefore can be trusted. After the phone call is terminated, the user device may again block the enterprise phone number. An attacker may not have access to the authentication server and a phone call from the attacker with a spoofed enterprise phone number (now blocked) may be dropped by the user device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190281158A1 CALLER ID VERIFICATION USING CALL IDENTIFICATION AND BLOCK LISTS Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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