Patent ID: 11917098
Assignee: MITEL NETWORKS CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method of mitigating spoofed callers comprising:
identifying, utilizing a digital communication network, one or more trusted members and tertiary contacts of an operator of a first client device on one or more social media platforms utilized by the operator of the first client device, wherein each of the trusted members is already a member of a social media group to which the operator of the first client device belongs and the tertiary contacts are (a) contacts of at least one of the trusted members in at least one of the one or more social media platforms, and (b) followers of the operator of the first client device in at least one of the trusted members in at least one of the one or more social media platforms;
storing the trusted members and tertiary contacts of the operator of a first client device in a directory utilizing a first database of the digital communications network;
utilizing the digital communication network, comparing the identification of an operator of a second client device to the directory when the second client device attempts to contact the first client device;
permitting the second client device to contact the first client device if the operator of the second client device is in the directory; and
not permitting the second client device to contact the first client device if the operator of the second client device is not in the trusted member directory; and
receiving from trusted members or tertiary contacts, and storing in the first database, by a dialer service module, a caller ID, name, or other identifiable factor that is different from the trusted member's or the tertiary contact's social media platform information.