Patent ID: 9609120
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer based method for establishing communications between a negotiator and a subject, the method comprising: storing, in association with a virtual number in a mapping table, an authorized transmitting number and party information for each telephonic device in a plurality of telephonic devices, the party information indicating whether the authorized transmitting number of a given telephonic device in the plurality of telephonic devices corresponds to the negotiator, a monitor in a first monitoring party having a first selected configuration, or a monitor in a second monitoring party having a second selected configuration, the first selected configuration of the first monitoring party differing from the second selected configuration of the second monitoring party; receiving number information in response to a request from a target telephonic device in the plurality of telephonic devices to connect to the virtual number, the number information identifying the virtual number and a transmitting number of the target telephonic device; authenticating the target telephonic device as a negotiator device based on a match between the transmitting number of the target telephonic device and the authorized transmitting number corresponding to the negotiator stored in association with the virtual number in the mapping table; and in response to authenticating the target telephonic device as the negotiator device, transmitting instructions for: