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

Claim 17:
18. A method of mitigating spoofed callers comprising:
identifying existing trusted members and tertiary contacts on one or more social media platforms of a first user, 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 (c) contacts of at least one of the trusted members in at least one of the one or more social media platforms, and (d) 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;
creating a directory comprising the existing trusted members and tertiary contacts;
saving the directory in an electronic database;
establishing, by a communication network, a secure communication channel between a first client device operated by the first user and a second client device operated by a second user;
if the user of the second client device is in the directory, with a dialer application on the second client device, sending a call initiation message to the first client device;
in response to the sending of the call initiation message, the communication network searching the electronic database to determine if the user of the second client device is in the directory;
if the user of the second client device is in the directory, alerting a dialer application on the first client device of a call from the second user via the second client device; and
with the dialer application on the first client device, receiving the call over the communication network.