Patent ID: 9270833
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: at a telecommunication platform: enrolling a plurality of parent accounts in the telecommunication platform; within a first enrolled account, enrolling at least one sub-account that is managed by the first account; at a fraud detection system of the telecommunication platform, receiving sub-account usage data of a plurality of sub-accounts of the telecommunication platform, wherein the sub-account usage data of each of the plurality of sub-accounts includes at least configuration data of the sub-account and communication history data; calculating fraud scores of a set of fraud scores from the sub-account usage data; and when the set of fraud scores of a sub-account satisfy a fraud threshold, programmatically notifying the corresponding parent account through the telecommunication platform, wherein receiving sub-account usage data comprises collecting application media configuration; and wherein for a first fraud rule, detecting a sub-account using application media files identical to media files used by at least a second sub-account.