Patent ID: 11889020
Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system of a user equipment including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
receiving, over a network from a network system, a call from a call originator and directed to the user equipment;
after detecting the call from the call originator, preventing the call from being received at the user equipment;
obtaining, from the network system, data that includes information regarding an identity of the call originator, a purpose for the call, or a combination thereof, wherein the data is provided to the user equipment based on the network system determining, responsive to detecting the call from the call originator directed to the user equipment, to challenge the call originator, requesting the call originator to provide the information based on the determining to challenge the call originator, and receiving the information from a call originator input after the requesting the call originator to provide the information;
causing the data to be presented on the user equipment responsive to the obtaining the data from the network system; and
upon receiving a user selection to accept the call, causing the call to be received at the user equipment.