PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050518
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for screening and selectively blocking private calls. A processor executing instructions associated with a private call blocking service can detect a call from a calling device directed to a called device. The processor can determine that the call has a caller identification blocking marker indicating that a fixed label should be provided to the called device to prevent the called device from presenting caller identification data associated with the calling device. In response to determining that the call has the caller identification blocking marker, the processor can obtain a custom private caller identification mask instead of the fixed label. The processor can provide the custom private caller identification mask to the called device for the call, where the custom private caller identification mask can be presented to a called party associated with the called device without revealing the caller identification data.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n detecting, by a processor of a call handling system server within a communications network, a call being routed across the communications network from a calling device directed to a called device, wherein the calling device is associated with a calling party that directed placement of the call; determining, by the processor of the call handling system server within the communications network, that the call has a caller identification blocking marker, wherein the caller identification blocking marker indicates requests that a name and a phone number from caller identification data associated with the call should be prevented from being sent to the called device, and that a fixed label should be provided to the called device instead of allowing the name and the phone number of the caller identification data associated with the call to be provided to the called device, wherein the fixed label does not present an identification of the calling party to the called device and the fixed label is not uniquely created for the called device; in response to determining that the call has the caller identification blocking marker and before the call reaches the called device, blocking, by the processor of the call handling system server, the fixed label and the phone number of the caller identification data from being provided to the called device for the call; creating, by the processor of the call handling system server, within a communications network data store, a custom private caller identification mask distinctly and uniquely for the called device so as to allow identification of the calling party, wherein the custom private caller identification mask is configured to prevent the called device from establishing a return call to the calling device by blocking the phone number of the calling device from being provided to the called device; obtaining, by the processor of the call handling system server from the communications network data store, the custom private caller identification mask for the call instead of using the fixed label that was requested by the caller identification blocking marker; and providing, by the processor of the call handling system server, the custom private caller identification mask to the called device for the call so as to identify the calling party but not allow the called device to establish the return call to the calling device over the communications network, wherein the custom private caller identification mask is presented to a called party via the called device without the custom private caller identification mask revealing the phone number of the calling device from the caller identification data associated with the calling device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15668991', '15879523', '10818090', '11776961', '11849919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6258507422069749
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504424752626792
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6137081432489566
- Mean Citation Score: 280.581858
- Max Citation Score: 312.13977
- Similarity Product: 232.17469104833185

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test