Patent ID: 8160226

Claim:
A method, comprising: detecting a telephone call at a telecommunications switch, the telephone call from a calling telephone number to a called telephone number; decoding the calling telephone number for the line identification information, the line identification information compared with a subscriber's profile; if the line identification information matches subscriber identified keyword data of the subscriber's profile to identify the calling telephone number as an undesirable calling party, then; automatically playing an announcement, storing a date and time of the undesired telephone call; and terminating the connection; if the line identification information does not match the subscriber identified keyword data then: establishing a connection between the calling telephone number and the called telephone number; after the connection between the calling telephone number and the called telephone number, monitoring the telephone call for an alphanumeric call screening request associated with the calling telephone number, the alphanumeric call screening request comprising subscriber identified keyword information associated with the calling number identifying the calling telephone number as an undesirable calling party; upon entry of the call screening request, taking an action in response to the call screening request; wherein the taking an action comprises storing the subscriber identified keyword information in a database.