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

Claim 3:
4. A fraud detection system comprising:
means for receiving an incoming call;
means for processing the incoming call to extract call signal information associated with the incoming call, including a phone number of the calling party;
means for 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; and
means for determining a fraud score associated with the incoming call using the determined age of the phone number, the fraud score indicating the likelihood that the incoming call is from a fraudulent caller; and
means for 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.