Patent ID: 7088805

Claim:
A method for remotely polling a call log, the method comprising: establishing a connection between a subscriber and a service provider network, the service provider network having access to a database comprising a call log having information about phone calls placed to a subscriber across the service provider network, the information configured to indicate results of phone calls that were attempted but not connected, wherein the established connection between the subscriber and the service provider network is established with the subscriber using a device having a phone number different from the phone number to which the phone calls in the call log were placed; processing a request from the subscriber for a subscriber identified call log; obtaining a portion of the subscriber identified call log, the obtained portion containing non-personal and non-proprietary information; delivering the portion of the subscriber identified call log to the subscriber; and erasing, in response to delivering the portion of the call log, the subscriber identified call log at a predetermined time relative to delivering the portion of the subscriber identified call log to the subscriber.