Patent ID: 8942357
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of preventing a robocall from reaching a telephone subscriber, comprising: An automated system pretesting a question against other system, wherein the other system comprising a voice recognition system, for whether the question is machine-answerable; the automated system playing the question and analyzing a response; if the response is not the expected answer, the automated system designates the question machine-unanswerable and adding the question to a set of stored questions to be asked by the automated system; before an incoming telephone call is permitted to ring through to a telephone subscriber, pre-answering the incoming call, performed by the automated system; delivering an audio message which a human caller would be likely to be able to answer successfully but would be likely to be unanswerable by a non-human; wherein the audio message comprises a message along the lines of “this telephone subscriber does not receive robocalls; are you a human caller?”; disconnecting the incoming call unless the automated system receives a predetermined response pattern; processing the incoming call for ring-through to the telephone subscriber if and only the predetermined response pattern has been received by the automated system.