Patent ID: 9443010
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) system comprising: a policy system to store a plurality of classifications to identify a plurality of types of VoIP connections, a type of the VoIP connection having an associated rule; a call control and signaling module to set up the VoIP connection for a user of the VoIP system; a filtering component to determine whether the VoIP connection is of a high risk type based on at least one of the plurality of the classifications, the determination being performed by the filtering component in response to the VoIP connection being set up for the user; a detection and action component to monitor a data stream of the VoIP connection, the monitoring being performed by the detection and action component in response to the determination that the VoIP connection is of the high risk type and the detection and action component to detect when the VoIP connection violates the associated rule; a biometric logic to compare one or more biometrics of the user of the VoIP system to one or more biometrics of known bad actors in a biometric database having biometrics of the known bad actors, the comparison being performed by the biometric logic in response to the determination that the VoIP connection is of the high risk type and without regard to any username, telephone number, user address, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) address, or VoIP number that is associated with the VoIP connection, the associated rule including recognizing that the user is not one of the known bad actors based on the comparison performed by the biometric logic, and the known bad actors including at least one of persons having a police record of criminal history or persons having a distinguishing attribute; a filtering component to perform an action when the associated rule is violated; and an encryption logic to automatically encrypt the VoIP connection, wherein the VoIP connection is between the user and at least one other user of the VoIP system, and wherein the presence of a special signal in each user's address triggers the automatic encryption of the VoIP connection.