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8160218 |
Event driven call generation
A system, method, and computer readable medium for event driven call generation, comprises, monitoring a database transaction, detecting a suspect pattern in the monitored database transactions,...
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8073756 |
Biometric financial transaction system and method
Tokenless biometric authorization of transaction between a consumer and a merchant uses an identicator and an access device. A consumer registers with the identicator a biometric sample taken from...
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8036356 |
System and method of identifying geographic location for the source of a call
A method, apparatus and computer program product for identifying a geographic location for a source of a call is presented. A central office receives a call from a calling party, the call including...
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8031849 |
Telephony system and method with enhanced fraud control
Inmate communications systems provide a feature-rich platform with a high degree of flexibility and security employing call control facilities located off institutional premises. Authentication...
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8027439 |
Self-calibrating fraud detection
A method for dynamically updating a model is described. The method includes accessing a model that specifies expected characteristics for a transaction. The model includes variables associated with...
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7974393 |
Prepaid services with security provisions to protect against unauthorized use
A method and apparatus for providing a telecommunication service is disclosed wherein a call associated with a first prepaid services account identifier is received from a user. An offer is...
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7974395 |
Detection of telephone number spoofing
An apparatus and method are disclosed that enables detecting the spoofing of a telephone number. To validate the identity of a calling terminal, some techniques in the prior art rely on exchanging...
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7970678 |
Biometric financial transaction system and method
Tokenless biometric authorization of transaction between a consumer and a merchant uses an identicator and an access device. A consumer registers with the identicator a biometric sample taken from...
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7912192 |
Arrangement for managing voice over IP (VoIP) telephone calls, especially unsolicited or unwanted calls
Trust ratings are embedded in certificates of calling devices in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system. A method of managing trust ratings involves automatically accumulating...
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7853511 |
Prepaid short messaging
A prepaid messaging solution which uses open networking standards (e.g., TCP/IP) and which supports pre-payment of enhanced Internet messaging services. The disclosed prepaid architectures and...
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7817791 |
Method and apparatus for providing fraud detection using hot or cold originating attributes
An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A list of single-event attributes (e.g., hot or cold attributes) is generated and includes a network address of an...
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7801288 |
Method and apparatus for fraud detection
A fraud detection method for generating a first fraud or fraud attempt probability, within an at least one captured or recorded interaction, is provided. The method comprises a scoring step for...
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7783019 |
Method and apparatus for providing fraud detection using geographically differentiated connection duration thresholds
An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A threshold corresponding to a geographic location is set. The threshold corresponds to duration of a call supporting...
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7760862 |
Domestic to international collect call blocking
A method and device for preventing fraud in collect calls from a domestic origin point to an international terminating point through a long-distance telecommunications system is described. In the...
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7721336 |
Systems and methods for dynamic detection and prevention of electronic fraud
The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamic detection and prevention of electronic fraud and network intrusion using an integrated set of intelligent technologies. The...
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7684809 |
Location based fraud reduction system and method
Embodiments of the present invention provide for reduction of the likelihood of fraud by having at least one of an identifier of a location from where a request is submitted or information that can...
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7653188 |
Telephony extension attack detection, recording, and intelligent prevention
A system and method are provided for detecting extension attacks made to a communication enterprise, and taking appropriate remedial action to prevent ongoing attacks and future attacks. One or...
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7636425 |
Voice authentication for call control
A communication network is disclosed that uses voice authentication to provide call control. The communication network includes a call control function, a voice collection system, a voice...
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7609826 |
System and method for preparing telecommunications call record data for quantitative analysis
A system and method for processing gathered call data from a network monitoring system to prepare the call data for analyzing call routing across a network, not limited to call data associated with...
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7603104 |
Apparatus and method of making a secure call
A system of operating a wireless handset capable of making clear and secure calls is claimed. A secure call may be made by pressing a key for a predetermined amount of time. The handset enters a...
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7471780 |
Configurable profiling of data
In one embodiment, a method of configurably profiling data uses system comprising a pre-processor, a profiler, a post-processor and database. The pre-processor receives data and feedback data and...
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7457401 |
Self-learning real-time prioritization of 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,...
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7453999 |
Prepaid services with security provisions to protect against unauthorized use
A method and apparatus for providing a telecommunication service is disclosed wherein a call associated with a first prepaid services account identifier is received from a user. An offer is...
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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...
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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...
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7353014 |
Universal portable unit
In general, a portable unit and method are described for storing user information for subsequent recovering. For one embodiment, the portable unit comprises a casing, an antenna and logic employed...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7043001 |
Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating call routing arbitrage in a telecommunications network
Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating call routing arbitrage in a telecommunications network are disclosed. A network routing node, such as a signaling gateway (SG), intercepts call...
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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....
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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...
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7020254 |
Escalation tracking system
A system for tracking billing escalation records includes a processing device configured to provide for creating, tracking and forwarding escalation records, and databases adapted to communicate...
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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...
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6868391 |
Tele/datacommunications payment method and apparatus
A tele/datacommunications network has a service node (TSN) (30) which facilitates payment/transfer from a customer account of a customer financial institution (80) to a merchant account of a...
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6850607 |
Intelligent vending system and method
An intelligent vending system such as a pay telephone provides local/remote diagnostics, fraud prevention, capability of facilitating local coin overtime operation, complete cash box accounting,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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6549618 |
Pay telephone vault guard
A guard for preventing the vandalism of the vault and vault door of a pay telephone, comprising a plurality of rigid segments. Each rigid segment includes an attachment end and a free end, defining...
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6535728 |
Event manager for use in fraud detection
A fraud detection system receives data relating to telecommunications activity. Event generators generate events from the received data, with each event having a weight corresponding to an...
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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...
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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...
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6483909 |
System and method for providing service assurance for prepaid telecommunication services
A prepaid service assurance system provides service assurance for a prepaid telecommunication system by generating a call to the prepaid telecommunication system. In response to the call, the...
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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...
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6404871 |
Termination number screening
Terminating number screening to block portable billing products from terminating to a designated high fraud domestic or international terminating numbers. When a call is placed and it is billed to...
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6396915 |
Country to domestic call intercept process (CIP)
A call intercept process (CIP) for calling card calls originating from an international country and terminating to high fraud domestic USA, and Canada locations. When a call is placed via a calling...
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