Patent ID: 11902464
Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A method comprising:
receiving, after a call recipient answers a telephone call from a telephone caller, a message from a caller computing device of the telephone caller, the message including a credential of the telephone caller and an identification of the call recipient;
authenticating the telephone caller based on the received message;
determining that the call recipient has authorized communications from the telephone caller, wherein authorization for communications from the telephone caller is received from a user computing device via selection of at least one of (i) a name of the telephone caller or (ii) a category of the telephone caller; and
transmitting, during the telephone call, only if the call recipient has authorized communications from the telephone caller, an instruction configured to cause generation by the first user computing device of a perceptible notification indicating that the telephone caller is authenticated.