Patent ID: 9516163
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing incoming telephone calls, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, a telephone call from a first client device that is intended for a second client device; identifying, by one or more computer processors, a telephone number of the first client device; receiving, by one or more computer processors, an indication from the second client device that the first client device is an unwanted telephone call to be counted towards a threshold number of unwanted telephone calls; determining, by one or more computer processors, if data associated with the first client device indicates that the telephone number of the first client device has reached a threshold number of total unwanted telephone calls to one or more client devices; determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the identified data associated with the first client device matches data stored in a database that comprises data associated with client devices that correspond to unwanted telephone call, wherein determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the identified data associated with the first client device matches comprises: responsive to determining that the first client device has not reached a threshold number of unwanted telephone calls, and responsive to determining that an action comprising at least unfriending or blocking of the first client device by the second client device, blocking, by one or more computer processors, the first client device from connecting a telephone call to the second client device as an unwanted telephone call.