Patent ID: 11876928
Assignee: RESILIENT PLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A fraud detection method comprising:
receiving an incoming call at a current time;
processing the incoming call to extract call signal information associated with the incoming call including a phone number of the calling party;
determining an age of the phone number of the calling party, wherein said age is determined by calculating a difference in time between an approximate time when the phone number was activated by a communication provider and the current time;
determining a fraud score associated with the incoming call using the determined age, the fraud score indicating a likelihood that the incoming call is from a fraudulent caller; and
forwarding the incoming call to one of a plurality of different destinations based on the determined fraud score or means for forwarding the incoming call together with the determined fraud score to a remote destination.