Patent ID: 6839414

Claim:
A call prevention device, comprising: a caller ID detection unit for detecting caller ID data transmitted over a telecommunication network before a connection is established when a call is made by a calling party to a called party; and a processing unit in communication with the caller ID detection unit for retrieving a caller profile from a caller profile database in response to the caller ID data, wherein the caller profile includes caller ID information relating to at least one prior calling party that has placed a call to the called party, and wherein the caller ID information relating to the at least one prior calling party has been collected from the call that the at least one prior calling party has placed to the called party, and the processing unit for comparing the caller profile with the caller ID data, the processing unit further for incrementing a call total value when the caller profile and the caller ID data match favorably, and the processing unit further for generating a message when the call total value exceeds a user defined value, wherein the message includes an audible warning that includes at least the caller ID data and the total call value.