Patent ID: 8862100
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of maintaining a communication policy in a voice telephony network having a policy server and a plurality of subscriber devices, comprising: maintaining, in a memory of the policy server, a communication policy comprising at least one identifier representing whether reception of a voice call having the at least one identifier is permissible at the subscriber devices; maintaining, in the memory, a trust policy comprising an indicator expressed as a percentage representing one of at least three levels of trust respective to each one of the subscriber devices; each of the levels of trust representing a different allowability of modifying the communication policy; receiving, at a network interface associated with the policy server, a request to modify the communication policy from one of the subscriber devices; retrieving, at the policy server, the indicator respective to the one of the subscriber devices from the trust policy maintained in the memory; maintaining, in the memory, a plurality of modification-procedures including: an alert for a system administrator including a report of the request; a vote to modify the communication policy such that if a predetermined number of the votes are received from a plurality of the subscriber devices then the communication policy is automatically modified in accordance with the request; and an automatic modification to the communication policy according to the request; and at the policy server, selecting the automatic modification-procedure for the communication policy when the indicator has a value of greater than eighty percent.