Patent ID: 8767589
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a call processing feature for a disposable telephone number in a network, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a call associated with the disposable telephone number; playing, by the processor, a prerecorded announcement that includes a list of predefined purposes requesting a calling party to identify a purpose of the call; receiving, by the processor, from the calling party a selection from the list of predefined purposes identifying the purpose of the call; determining, by the processor, the call processing feature for the disposable telephone number in accordance with a filtering function based upon the purpose of the call entered by the calling party, wherein the filtering function is performed in accordance with a customer's preference for filtering an inbound call based upon an identity of the caller, wherein the call processing feature is determined from a flag associated with a naming authority pointer resource record that indicates the call is to be processed in accordance with the call processing feature for the disposable telephone number, wherein the naming authority pointer resource record comprises an activation field that indicates whether the naming authority pointer resource record is active indicating that the naming authority pointer resource record associated with the disposable telephone number that is assigned to a customer can be used or inactive indicating that the naming authority pointer resource record associated with the disposable telephone number that is assigned to the customer cannot be used, wherein whether the activation field is active or inactive for each naming authority pointer resource record is designated by the customer; and processing, by the processor, the call in accordance with the call processing feature for the disposable telephone number and in accordance with an order field and a preference field associated with each one of a plurality of naming authority pointer resources records assigned to the customer, wherein the order field and the preference field are set by the customer, wherein the preference field determines a preferred order of the plurality of naming authority pointer resource records for directing the call.