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7388948 AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA)  
A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony office and that are routed over an inter-exchange...
7386510 System and method for detecting fraudulent calls  
A system and method that determines when fraudulent activity, such as relates to a credit card, etc., may be imminent. The system and method of the invention allows for warning a credit issuer of...
7386105 Method and apparatus for fraud detection  
An apparatus and method for detecting a fraud or fraud attempt in a captured interaction. The method comprising a selection step in which interactions suspected as capturing fraud attempts are...
7376431 Location based fraud reduction system and method  
Likelihood of fraud is reduced by having at least one of an identifier of a location from where a request is submitted or information that can lead to identification of the location, submitted with...
7366289 Domestic origination to international termination country set logic  
A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is...
7340045 Method of billing a communication session conducted over a computer network  
A method of billing a communication session between a user and a value-added service. A request is received from a user for a communication session, such as a circuit-switched call, a...
7333796 Wireless telephone service  
A method for providing a wireless telephone service includes providing a wireless handset having an associated telephone number, and a dedicated programmable wireless switch coupled to a public...
7327837 Call routing method  
A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with...
7280982 System and method for a fee address system  
A system relating to a fee address is described. A method of directing mail to a public mailbox, determining a fee based upon the preferences of the mail recipient, receiving the fee and forwarding...
7266364 Wireless communications unauthorized use verification system  
A subscriber determines and verifies using a simple and reliable unit whether or not unauthorized use such as cloning, etc. A fraud audit mode (fraud detection mode, fraud verification mode, and...
7257206 Skip tracing system  
A system for performing skip tracing provides a first user interface including an area for presenting at least one telephone number associated with account information of a customer retrieved from...
7224786 System and method for detecting unauthorized access using a voice signature  
A method for detecting unauthorized access is provided. The method includes receiving a voice input associated with a request to access an account. A request voice signature corresponding to the...
7203291 Apparatus and method for generating call information data for calls on long duration  
An apparatus for generating data for long duration calls includes: call sensors distributed across a network for detecting call messages, correlating call messages relating to a call, and for...
7197560 Communications system with fraud monitoring  
A fraud monitoring system is disclosed for a communications system. The fraud monitoring system analyzes records of usage activity in the system and applies fraud pattern detection algorithms to...
7158622 Self-learning real-time prioritization of telecommunication fraud control actions  
A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched,...
7149296 Providing account usage fraud protection  
A method, system, and program providing identification usage fraud protection are provided. A context for a use of an identification via a communication line is detected at a fraud protection...
7142651 Fraud detection in a distributed telecommunications networks  
Methods, apparatuses and systems for detecting a fraud event on a distributed network are disclosed. A fraud event is indicated if data analysis reveals that there is a lack of consistency between...
7095837 Intelligent network services  
In a telephone network, a service control point is called by a switching center, if a flag has previously been set by some event (e.g. call charges crossing a threshold or the leaving of a voice...
7079635 Domestic origination to international termination country set logic  
A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is...
7079634 Apparatus for tracking connection of service provider customers via customer use patterns  
A method for identifying tracking accounts belonging to a customer of a service provider using profiles indicating customer patterns of use of the service. The profiles distinguish the account of...
7068759 Electronic surveillance via correlation of call legs  
A variety of methods and systems can be used to achieve electronic surveillance when a call is directed to a destination as a result of service processing. For example, in a system involving a...
7042992 Systems and methods for account establishment and transaction management using interrupt messaging  
Disclosed are systems and methods which provide techniques providing account setup, management and transaction authorization determinations in real-time using transaction interrupt messaging....
7035387 Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating intrusion events in a communications network  
Methods and systems for detecting intrusion events, such as war dialing events are disclosed. According to one method, signaling messages associated with calls being made or attempted in a...
7035386 Method for verifying access authorization for voice telephony in a fixed network line or mobile telephone line as well as a communications network  
A method for verifying access authorization for voice telephony in a fixed network line or mobile telephone line, as well as a communications network having such access authorization verification...
7013002 Credit card collect call system and method  
A method of providing collect call service includes receiving a request for a collect call from a calling party ( 18 ). A selected number to call is received. A call is placed to a receiving party...
6963635 Method and system for facilitating collection of subscriber past due balance  
A method and system for facilitating collection of past due balances. A control entity such as a call server or collections server receives a signaling message such as a SIP INVITE that seeks to...
6904136 Secure method of payment  
A process for a transfer of funds for payment for goods and/or services in which a purchaser of the goods and/or services requests that a financial services organization generate a financial...
6873617 Means for and methods of “in-progress” fraud, billing and maintenance in a SS#7 network of high speed data links  
The invention relates to equipment for call-completion analysis on high speed data links in an SS#7 network. A pyramidal structure service observing system processes data packets from all high...
6856982 System, intelligent network service engine and method for detecting a fraudulent call using real time fraud management tools  
A system, intelligent network service engine and method are described than can perform a real time fraud analysis on an originating side of a call stream to determine whether or not a call is a...
6801607 System and method for preventing fraudulent calls using a common billing number  
In a telecommunication network, there is provided a system for monitoring a plurality of telephone calls to a common private branch exchange, PBX) in order to detect fraudulent activity. In...
6801606 Fraud monitoring system  
In order to detect fraudulent or potentially fraudulent usage of a telecommunications network, each call connected by way of one of the digital main switching units of the network ( 3 a to 3 c )...
6785372 Method and apparatus for providing prepaid local telephone services in metered states  
A method and apparatus for providing prepaid local telephone services is provided. The method includes determining if a subscriber is making a qualified local telephone call, checking to see if a...
6782083 ISN call interrupt  
A device and method of intercepting in-progress calls whose billing numbers have been marked fraudulent subsequent to the initial authorization and validation of the same in-progress calls. The...
6763098 Call blocking based on call properties  
Non-toll calls originating from payphones may be blocked. An intelligent node is provided within the telecommunications network to identify whether a non-toll call originated from a payphone. The...
6700960 Apparatus for tracking connection of service provider customers via customer use patterns  
An apparatus for identifying multiple accounts belonging to a customer of a service provider using profiles indicating customer patterns of use of the service. The profiles distinguish the accounts...
6643362 Call-processing system and method  
A system and method for processing telephone calls and providing enhanced services is presented. The call processing system includes a network control processor for controlling the processing and...
6639977 System and method for reverse billing of a telephone call  
The present invention is a system and method that allows a calling party to call a destination number and, upon approval of the called party, reverse the billing of the telephone call so that it is...
6636592 Method and system for using bad billed number records to prevent fraud in a telecommunication system  
A method for using at least one Bad Billed Number Record (BBN) to detect fraud in a telecommunication system includes the steps of generating the at least one BBN for each call attempt made using a...
6590967 Variable length called number screening  
A system for preventing telecommunications fraud, the system comprising a database, at least one processor and related software, the at least one processor receives and stores numbers representing...
6587552 Fraud library  
A system for analyzing fraud in a telecommunications system, where the system comprises at least one processor, software and calling records stored in a database. The at least one processor has...
6574317 System and method for blocking uncollectible random traffic of a telecommunication network  
A system and method for blocking uncollectible random call traffic of a telecommunication network. The system includes a database that stores a plurality of customer and call data, a fraud...
6570968 Alert suppression in a telecommunications fraud control system  
A method and device for suppressing threshold alerts in a telecommunication fraud control system is disclosed. Threshold alerts are generated when the count of a certain category of call exceeds a...
6556669 International origination to domestic termination call blocking  
A method and device for preventing fraud in special service calls from an international origin point to a domestic terminating point through a long-distance telecommunications system is described....
6542729 System and method for minimizing fraudulent usage of a mobile telephone  
A system and method for minimizing fraudulent usage of a mobile telephone, wherein data regarding an authorized user's prior usage of a mobile telephone is accumulated, data regarding a current...
6539082 Billing system  
A billing system for a telecommunications network uses a monitoring software agent to monitor messages, indicative of individual calls on the network, passing between a service switching point and...
6519332 Mechanism for rejecting collect calls  
A mechanism for rejecting specific types of calls in a network including collect calls and telemarketing calls. Calls are tagged to indicate the type of call, this tag being recognizable at the...
6516056 Fraud prevention system and method  
A system and method for preventing fraud. The method typically includes identifying one or more fraud indicators and examining past transactions and/or a pending transaction associated with the...
6483908 Method for tracking connection of service provider customers via customer use patterns  
A method for identifying multiple accounts belonging to a customer of a service provider using profiles indicating customer patterns of use of the service. The profiles distinguish the accounts of...
6442265 Method for detecting and reducing fraudulent telephone calls  
The losses sustained by telecommunications service providers attributable to unpaid, long-duration calls are reduced if such calls are carefully monitored. Upon the determination that a call might...
6430274 Validation query based on a supervisory signal  
A telephone system and method is provided for delaying authorization validation queries until after a called party accepts a telephone call. Queries are avoided not only in cases where the called...
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