Patent ID: 11917101
Assignee: YOUMAIL, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for validating an incoming communication originating from a first party having a first telephone number and directed to a second party having a second telephone number, the method comprising:
retrieving, by a computing device, communication intent data associated with the first telephone number from a publicly accessible registry, the registry comprising a first plurality of telephone numbers each associated at least with data representing a communication intent and a second plurality of telephone numbers each associated with call receiving parameters/criteria including conditions for handling incoming communications based on communication intent, the communication intent data associated with each telephone number in the first plurality of telephone numbers being stored in the registry before communication is initiated by each such telephone number;
retrieving, by the computing device, call receiving parameters/criteria associated with the second telephone number from the registry; and
handling, by the computing device, the incoming communication on a device used by the second party based on the communication intent data and the retrieved call receiving parameters/criteria.