Patent ID: 9509821
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method for mobile communications device, comprising: creating a new single blacklist contact on the mobile communications device to store all harassing phone numbers by downloading and installing from the Internet or otherwise installed application on the mobile communications device, wherein the mobile communications device is operating on iOS operating system, and the new single blacklist is created automatically; creating a new single whitelist contact automatically on the mobile communications device by the software application to store other than harassing phone numbers; assigning, by one time user's action, a silent ringtone to the automatically created new single blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device without changing device's mode; setting, by one time user's action, vibration to None for the new automatically created blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device without changing device's mode; adding crowd reported harassing phone numbers automatically by the software application into the new automatically created blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device without changing device's mode; adding phone numbers by the user, into the new automatically created blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device; reporting harassing phone numbers by the user, to a community complaints data base on a server from the mobile communications device via the software application; optionally moving phone numbers by the user, from the new automatically created blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers into the new single whitelist contact for storing other than harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device; optionally moving phone numbers by the user, from the new single whitelist contact for storing other than harassing phone numbers into the new automatically created blacklist contact for storing all harassing phone numbers on the mobile communications device; automatically comparing at the mobile communications device by the software application, an incoming electronic communication identified by a phone number with phone numbers in the automatically created blacklist contact containing all harassing phone numbers without using additional modules, scoring or markings; determining by the software application, based on the comparison of the phone number without using additional modules, scoring or markings, if the incoming electronic communication should be treated as unwanted or else the incoming electronic communication should be treated otherwise; if a match is found by the software application in the automatically created single blacklist contact containing all harassing phone numbers for the identifying phone number of the incoming electronic communication the incoming electronic communication is silenced automatically and the mobile communications device will not produce sound or vibration, and if a match is not found by the software application in the automatically created single blacklist contact containing all harassing phone numbers for the identifying phone number of the incoming electronic communication the incoming electronic communication is accepted as allowed and the mobile communications device will produce sound or vibration.