Patent ID: 8301117
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing voice services, comprising: accepting an incoming voice call, to establish a voice channel for the incoming voice call, and to provide a service over the established voice channel; obtaining call-identifying information from the voice channel for the accepted voice call; matching at least a portion of the call-identifying information to stored identification information for an authorizable device; responsive to receiving an indication, determined to be from the authorizable device, that it initiated the incoming voice call, providing the voice service over the voice channel; accepting a plurality of incoming voice calls; attempting to obtain call-identifying information for each accepted voice call; if any of the accepted voice calls had (1) call-identifying information that matched to the stored identification information for the authorizable device, (2) failed to match any stored identification information, or (3) for which no call-identifying information was obtained, then providing the service over the voice channel from which the matching authentication token was received.