Patent ID: 8818344

Claim:
A method for collecting information about a location of a calling device to verify a calling party in response to a call connection request for establishing a digital communication channel, comprising: during a connection set-up phase to establish a digital communication channel with the calling device that is used to exchange contextual information and voice information that occurs before establishing the digital communication channel for voice communication, performing operations comprising: receiving a call connection request from a calling device to establish the digital communication channel; receiving contextual information comprising a first set of location information from the calling device; obtaining a second set of location information that is necessary for verifying the first set of location information; evaluating the first set of location information by comparing it with the second set of location information in order to authenticate an identity of the calling party, wherein if the identity of the calling party is not authenticated within a satisfactory degree of certainty, rejecting the call connection request to establish the digital communication channel; presenting information including location information on a display that is used by a callee for accepting/rejecting a call from the caller; wherein the contextual information is exchanged during the connection set-up phase of the digital communication channel; after receiving the call connection request, requesting call connection routing information in addition to the first set of location information from the calling party comprising: a router IP address, connection points between the calling device and a service provider, a device unique identifier, and IP trace-back information; and establishing the digital communication with the caller for the voice communication when determined.