Patent ID: 8014508

Claim:
A method of processing a blocked call, the method comprising: identifying a call that does not include calling line information as a privacy management service call; providing the identified privacy management service call to a network device for processing; receiving, at the network device, access code provided by a calling party at a calling communication station; in response to receiving the access code initiating a new call to a called party with two call parameters having a predetermined matching relationship, wherein initiating the new call includes setting a calling party identifier parameter equal to the access code, setting a called party identifier parameter equal to a directory number of a called communication station; and setting one of the two call parameters equal to the directory number of the called communication station; and comparing the called party identifier parameter and one of the two call parameters; and completing the new call to the called communication station with calling party information identifying the calling party based at least in part on the received access code when the called party identifier parameter and one of the two call parameters match.