Patent ID: 11962718
Assignee: CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a computing system, a first call from an originating party intended for a first destination party;
comparing, using the computing system, first abstracted raw data, which is obtained from a portion of call data associated with the first call, with each of a plurality of abstracted raw data, which are obtained from portions of call data associated with a plurality of calls from a corresponding plurality of originating parties, the plurality of abstracted raw data and the first abstracted raw data each comprising at least one of word count data, phoneme count data, inter-word timing data, voice pitch estimation data, or background noise data;
determining, using the computing system, whether the first abstracted raw data is indicative of the first call being a suspected unsolicited or unwanted communication, based at least in part on the comparison; and
based on a determination that the first abstracted raw data is not indicative of the first call being a suspected unsolicited or unwanted communication, connecting the first call to the first destination party, and
based on a determination that the first abstracted raw data is indicative of the first call being a suspected unsolicited or unwanted communication, performing, using the computing system, one or more tasks.