Patent ID: 7092508

Claim:
A method for rating a party to a call comprising: detecting, at a context rating service accessible via a packet switching network communicatively connected via a secure gateway to a call supported within a trusted telephone network, an identity of a first party to said call with an identification of a device that performed a voice authentication of said identity of said first party and a context of said call; requesting a second party to said call to rate said first party to said call and said context of said call through a communication from said context rating service to said second party; responsive to receiving at said context rating service said rating entered by said second party, selecting at least one relevant context rating database for a type of said rating from among a plurality of context rating databases each for storing a separate selection of types of ratings and each accessible to one of said context rating service and a plurality of separate context rating services accessible across said packet switching network; and storing said rating by said second party, said identification of said device that performed said voice authentication of said identity of said first party, and said context of said call in association with said identity of said first party to said call in said at least one relevant context rating database.