US 12,010,263 B2
Phone number list management
Derrick Ives, North Bend, WA (US); Ovidiu Serban, Sammamish, WA (US); Adriana Padilla, Shoreline, WA (US); Samantha Klemm, Seattle, WA (US); and Vanda Oliveira, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/497,625.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110974 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 3/42 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 3/42059 (2013.01) [H04M 3/42085 (2013.01); H04M 2203/2055 (2013.01); H04M 2203/6045 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, telephone call data that reflects characteristics of telephone calls placed and received by a first user;
based on the telephone call data, generating, by the computing device, a first telephone number whitelist for the first user;
accessing, by the computing device, a second telephone number whitelist for a second user;
determining, by the computing device, a quantity of telephone numbers that are included in both the first telephone number whitelist and the second telephone number whitelist;
comparing, by the computing device, the quantity of telephone numbers that are included in both the first telephone number whitelist and the second telephone number whitelist to a threshold quantity;
based on comparing the quantity of telephone numbers that are included in both the first telephone number whitelist and the second telephone number whitelist to the threshold quantity, determining, by the computing device, whether to combine the first telephone number whitelist and the second telephone number whitelist for the second user; and
storing, by the computing device, the first telephone number whitelist or the combined telephone number whitelist in association with the first user.