Patent ID: 9699126
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06N,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method implemented in a communications device comprising: receiving, by the communications device, content comprising a content type, an address of a last sender, and an address of an original sender; providing, by the communications device, an indication of the content type, the address of the last sender of the content, and the address of the original sender of the content; receiving, from a user interface in the communications device, a trigger, receipt of the trigger being indicative of the content type comprising unwanted information; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises a short message service content type; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises a multimedia message service content type; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises an email content type; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises a voice mail content type; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises a video voice mail content type; determining, by the communications device, whether the content type comprises an advertisement content type; respectively encapsulating each of the determined content types by encrypting or obfuscating the content to create an encapsulated content; providing the encapsulated content to a voice mail client in the communications device; generating, in a report spam client, a report comprising the encapsulated content types, the address of the original sender, the address of the last sender, and a disposition instruction for each of the encapsulated content types, the disposition instruction comprising blocking further content of the encapsulated content types from at least one of the address of the original sender and the address of the last sender; providing a spam reporting option as part of an audio user interface provided by the voicemail client; and providing, by the communications device, the report to a network spam reporting service center.