Patent ID: 7162225

Claim:
Method of tracing a malicious call in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: sending, in real time from a called subscriber terminal equipment, a service request to means for processing tracing of malicious calls in the mobile communication network; receiving the service request in said means for processing tracing of malicious calls; analyzing the service request in said means for processing tracing of malicious calls; based on the analysis of the service request, activating a real time tracing process in the means for processing tracing of the malicious call in the mobile communication network in order to find out the identity of the malicious caller, wherein the tracing of the malicious caller is controlled depending on one of the country of origin of the malicious call, the country of location of the called subscriber terminal equipment, the type of communication network from which the malicious call originates, and a predefined type of malicious callers, and reporting the result of the tracing process to the called subscriber terminal equipment.