Patent ID: 6337899
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: H04Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for controlling subscription services delivered to a user by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) coupled to an Automated Intelligent Network (AIN) telephone system comprising at least one central office switching system, wherein an intelligent peripheral subsystem is connected to said central office switching system, via a call connection channel, said intelligent peripheral subsystem comprising means for providing at least one auxiliary call processing capability via said call connection channel; and wherein said intelligent peripheral subsystem provides a telephony speaker authentication method for selectively authorizing update to user subscription services types provided by said ISP, wherein each of the subscription services types include one or more service options, the method comprising the steps of:a) prompting for a voice response; b) authenticating a user's voice response pattern by performing a speaker-dependent cepstrum matching algorithm with previously stored samples of the user's voice response, and if the user's voice response pattern is positively authenticated with previously stored samples, then performing the steps of: c) presenting a menu of user subscription types, each with available AIN service options; and d) responding to a user selection of at least one user subscription types, each with service option, by activating a service option selected by said user, wherein said service option is governed by said ISP by regulating one or more Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses received by a user subscriber device from said ISP over a telecommunications line.