Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
379201110 | Anonymous party (e.g., protection of called or calling party's identity, privacy) | 10 |
20090285378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBFUSCATING CONTACT NUMBERS - A system for managing and tracking contacts between businesses and prospective customers, where the customer typically calls or sends a text message to the business on a mobile telephone. A business registered with the system is assigned a temporary, dynamic contact number (obfuscated number). A customer interacts with the business through the system using the obfuscated number; the customer's number is not revealed to the business. Usage of the obfuscated number is tracked and analyzed to yield marketing information for the business. Expiration of the number may be delayed if the parties continue to maintain contact. | 11-19-2009 |
20100142693 | Method and System for Providing Calling Number Restoral - A system and method for restoring the original calling number in a call routed through an out-of-network enhanced service provider to a forwarding destination. The system comprises a service control point, a service switching point in communication with the service control point, and an enhanced service provider service node in communication with the service switching point, wherein the service node is located outside of a network while the remaining components reside within the network, and wherein the service switching point is provisioned with two triggers: an incoming trigger for calls to the service node and an outgoing trigger for calls from the service node. According to the method, the service control point, in response to the incoming trigger, removes and stores the private call information of a call exiting the network and, in response to the outgoing trigger, restores that private call information to the call once the call re-enters the network. | 06-10-2010 |
20110007886 | TELEPHONE CONVERSATION RELAY SERVER, VOICE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION SYSTEM, AND VOICE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION RELAY METHOD - A call relay server includes a call control information storage unit that stores, for each user, a proxy phone number and terminal identification information on a main terminal and a sub terminal; and a call control unit that, when a call start request is received from the main terminal or the sub terminal, judges if the terminal is a main terminal or a sub terminal based on terminal identification information on a request source, establishes a call with the main terminal or the sub terminal and then makes a call to a call destination using the proxy phone number of the user, and forwards an incoming call, addressed to the proxy phone number, to the sub terminal if terminal identification information on the sub terminal is stored but, otherwise, forwards the incoming call to the main terminal. | 01-13-2011 |
20110228920 | ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is an anonymous communication system that allows a third party, which is not any one of communicating parties, to determine the anonymities of the communicating parties. Disclosed is an anonymous communication system and an anonymity notifying apparatus to be installed in an anonymous communication system that are characterized is enabling a communication by anonymity, said anonymous communication system detecting anonymities of communication parties and notifying them to a third party device other than communication devices of the communication parties. Disclosed is an anonymous communication method that is characterized enabling a communication by anonymity, said anonymous communication method detecting anonymities of communication parties and notifying them to a third party device other than communication devices of the communication parties. | 09-22-2011 |
20120039456 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES RELATED TO A TELEPHONE CALL COMPLETION SERVICE - The present embodiments describe methods and apparatuses for protecting the privacy of one or both parties involved in a two-party telephone conversation. The embodiments also use an SMS text network to provide advance, substantial, customizable information to a recipient prior to the joining of two parties in conversation. The embodiments also provide dynamic control over who responds to an incoming call based on multiple criteria. The invention uses SIP various forms of VoIP technology to determine and route calls incoming to a communications system and sends advance notification(s) to recipient(s) prior to the joining the parties for conversation. | 02-16-2012 |
20120069982 | CALL CONTROL ELEMENT CONSTRUCTING A SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) MESSAGE INCLUDING PROVISIONS FOR INCORPORATING ADDRESS RELATED INFORMATION OF PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK (PSTN) BASED DEVICES - A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message adapted for use by a multi-media services provider system to form a multi-media communication path between at least a calling communication device adapted to operate using a first protocol (e.g. SIP) and at least a destination communication device adapted to operate using a second protocol, such as Integrated Services Digital Network User Part (ISUP). The SIP message includes a header region having a number of header fields, a first body region having Session Description Protocol (SDP) information related to the calling communication device and a second body region having ISUP related addressing information associated with the destination communication device. | 03-22-2012 |
20140003596 | PRIVACY GENERATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140348315 | TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention concerns telecommunications methods and systems, and more particularly methods and systems for enabling respondents, who may be potential customers, to respond to advertisements for items (goods or services) advertised by or on behalf of advertisers. Telecommunications methods and systems of the invention provide selective communication routing or forwarding to advertisers of communications made to anonymous contact identifiers selected from a pool of anonymous contact identifiers, each anonymous contact identifier able to be allocated to an item to be advertised by or on behalf of the advertiser. The anonymous contact identifier is a public telephone number or an email address, for example. The service is provided by way of hosted system for use by a plurality of advertisers. The invention has particular application in the area of classified or personal advertising in printed or online publications, such as for real estate, automotive, travel or job advertising, for sale or auction item advertising, or for dating agency advertising. | 11-27-2014 |
20150055769 | Method for Improving Connection Success in Arranging Video Chat among Candidate Conversants - A system registers participant information and inter-participant relationship information, and then, at variable times, selects two or more participants with a pre-existing relationship and attempts to establish a communication link between them. At least one of the participants is notified that the communication link will be attempted, shortly before the attempt is made. The identities of the selected participants are withheld from at least one of the participants (and potentially from all of the participants), so the call is a partial surprise (i.e., the participant may know the set of possible people from whom the call could be, but does not know exactly which person or people are calling until he answers the call). A number of applications are described and claimed. | 02-26-2015 |
20160173684 | SECURE CALLER IDENTIFICATION USING A PROFILE | 06-16-2016 |