Patent ID: 9172493
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04K,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a user-identity-based secure channel between a digital telephone and a service provider, the method comprising: decrypting, at the service provider, an encrypted voice transmission from a digital telephone, wherein the encrypted voice transmission has been encrypted at the digital telephone by using a user voice encryption key, wherein the user voice encryption key was created in the digital telephone by inputting a telephone identifier, which is unique for the digital telephone, and a called telephone number into a public encryption key algorithm that is supplied by the service provider, wherein decrypting the encrypted voice transmission provides the service provider with an unencrypted voice transmission, the telephone identifier, the called telephone number, wherein the telephone identifier comprises a telephone number of the digital telephone, a name of a single authorized user of services provided by the service provider and a level of service authorized to be provided by the service provider to the single authorized user of services; and routing the unencrypted voice transmission to an appropriate answering party at the service provider, using the called telephone number and the telephone identifier, including the name of the single authorized user and the level of service authorized for the single authorized user.