The Telephone Butler
Channel: Phillip Hallam-Baker
Date: 2013-01-15

An entry to the FCC/FTC robocaller elimination challenge. Faced with a problem of robot callers the obvious solution is a fleet of daleks to hunt down and exterminate the source of the problem. Unfortunately that 'solution' falls short in several ways. The Telephone Butler is a software agent that sits in 'the cloud' and manages incoming calls on your behalf. Implementing the butler itself is easy but the challenge lies in providing the butler with good data on which to act. Solutions to these challenges are discussed.