Patent ID: 11968528
Assignee: SOMOS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a phone number database including a plurality of data records each matching a corresponding managing entity, of a plurality of managing entities, to a plurality of corresponding phone numbers to indicate that each of the corresponding phone numbers are registered to the corresponding managing entity, wherein: each of the plurality of managing entities manages use of the registered plurality of corresponding phone numbers by one or more corresponding enterprises to make telecommunications on a telecommunications network, each of the registered plurality of corresponding phone numbers has a format that conforms to an addressing scheme of the telecommunications network, and at least some of the plurality of managing entities are at least one of: a local number administrator; or a Responsible Organization; and
a controller in communication with the phone number database and operative to:
receive an authentication code request corresponding to one of the plurality of managing entities and identifying a phone number;
validate the phone number identified in the authentication code request as being registered to the one of the plurality of managing entities via querying the phone number database;
responsive to validating that the phone number identified in the authentication code request is registered to the one of the plurality of managing entities, generate an authentication code corresponding to the phone number identified in the authentication code request;
store the generated authentication code in the data record; and
transmit the authentication code to the one of the plurality of managing entities.