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

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
receiving, from a managing entity, an authentication code request that identifies a phone number;
validating that the phone number, identified in the authentication code request, is registered to the managing entity, that sent the authentication code request, via querying a phone number database that includes a plurality of data records each matching a corresponding managing entity, of a plurality of managing entities that includes the managing entity that sent the authentication code request, to a plurality of corresponding phone numbers to indicate the plurality of corresponding phone numbers is registered to the corresponding managing entity, wherein: each of the plurality of managing entities manages use of the registered corresponding plurality of phone numbers by one or more corresponding enterprises to make telecommunications on a telecommunications network, each of the registered corresponding plurality of 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;
responsive to validating that the phone number identified in the authentication code request is registered to the managing entity that sent the authentication code request, generating an authentication code corresponding to the phone number identified in the authentication code request;
storing the generated authentication code in a data record corresponding to the managing entity that sent the authentication code request; and
transmitting the authentication code to the managing entity that sent the authentication code request.