Patents by Inventor Dean C. Marchand
Dean C. Marchand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8442193Abstract: 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 system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is added to the call processing platform. This Screening of International Calls database contains records keyed by country codes, and each record has a blocked collect call field listing destination numbers that are blocked from receiving collect calls. When a domestic-to-international collect call is made, the record corresponding to the country code of the international terminating point of the collect call is retrieved from the Screening for International Calls database. This record is checked to determine if the destination number of the collect call matches any destination numbers listed in the blocked collect call field of the country code database record. If there is a match, the call is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 8170947Abstract: A method of identifying fraud in a telecommunications system, the method including receiving data related to a current call placed from an originating ANI to a terminating ANI, where the received data includes the terminating ANI and a billing number used to place the call. Billing numbers for prior calls to the terminating ANI, if any, and corresponding indicia of the times of the calls are retrieved. A determination is made of whether the number of billing numbers used for the current and prior calls to the terminating ANI over a prior period of time falling within a time interval satisfies a threshold. If the threshold is satisfied, a fraud alert is generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman
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Publication number: 20110255676Abstract: A method of identifying fraud in a telecommunications system, the method including receiving data related to a current call placed from an originating ANI to a terminating ANI, where the received data includes the terminating ANI and a billing number used to place the call. Billing numbers for prior calls to the terminating ANI, if any, and corresponding indicia of the times of the calls are retrieved. A determination is made of whether the number of billing numbers used for the current and prior calls to the terminating ANI over a prior period of time falling within a time interval satisfies a threshold. If the threshold is satisfied, a fraud alert is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: VERIZON BUSINESS GLOBAL LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman
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Patent number: 7760862Abstract: 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 system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is added to the call processing platform. This Screening of International Calls database contains records keyed by country codes, and each record has a blocked collect call field listing destination numbers that are blocked from receiving collect calls. When a domestic-to-international collect call is made, the record corresponding to the country code of the international terminating point of the collect call is retrieved from the Screening for International Calls database. This record is checked to determine if the destination number of the collect call matches any destination numbers listed in the blocked collect call field of the country code database record. If there is a match, the call is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Publication number: 20100142690Abstract: 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 system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is added to the call processing platform. This Screening of International Calls database contains records keyed by country codes, and each record has a blocked collect call field listing destination numbers that are blocked from receiving collect calls. When a domestic-to-international collect call is made, the record corresponding to the country code of the international terminating point of the collect call is retrieved from the Screening for International Calls database. This record is checked to determine if the destination number of the collect call matches any destination numbers listed in the blocked collect call field of the country code database record. If there is a match, the call is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: VERIZON BUSINESS GLOBAL LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 7366289Abstract: 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 achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device, an override flag is created in the records of the Billing Number Screening (BNS) database. When a call is made using a billing number whose corresponding record has the override flag set, the call is not stopped by fraud control blocks on certain international destinations. In addition, international destinations can be blocked with greater specificity because a Country Set Logic (CSET) field is added to the International City Code Database. The addition of CSET to this database allows particular international city destinations to be blocked from certain origin points.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Dean C Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 7236954Abstract: A method of identifying fraud in a telecommunications system, the method including receiving data related to a current call placed from an originating ANI to a terminating ANI, where the received data includes the terminating ANI and a billing number used to place the call. Billing numbers for prior calls to the terminating ANI, if any, and corresponding indicia of the times of the calls are retrieved. A determination is made of whether the number of billing numbers used for the current and prior calls to the terminating ANI over a prior period of time falling within a time interval satisfies a threshold. If the threshold is satisfied, a fraud alert is generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman
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Patent number: 7079635Abstract: 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 achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device, an override flag is created in the records of the Billing Number Screening (BNS) database. When a call is made using a billing number whose corresponding record has the override flag set, the call is not stopped by fraud control blocks on certain international destinations. In addition, international destinations can be blocked with greater specificity because a Country Set Logic (CSET) field is added to the International City Code Database. The addition of CSET to this database allows particular international city destinations to be blocked from certain origin points.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: MCI, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 6947532Abstract: A method of identifying fraud in a telecommunications system. The method includes receiving data related to a current call placed from an originating automatic number indicator (ANI), where the received data includes at least the originating ANI, a billing number and an identification code. A threshold number and a time interval corresponding to the identification code for the originating ANI are retrieved, for example, from a memory. In addition, billing numbers for prior calls from the originating ANI, if any, and corresponding indicia of the times of the calls are retrieved. A determination is made of whether the number of billing numbers used for the current and prior calls from the originating ANI over a prior period of time equal to or less than the time interval exceeds the threshold number. If the threshold number is exceeded, a fraud alert is generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: MCI, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman
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Patent number: 6801607Abstract: 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 particular, fraudulent activity is detected in calls made to and originating from a PBX that uses a common billing number. If fraudulent activity is found, an alert message is provided to a fraud analyst for further review. Call detail records corresponding to each of the calls, are retrieved and stored in a queue. The billing number and a call time associated with each call detail record are analyzed. Each call detail record, billing number and call time is compared with at least one predetermined threshold relating to billing numbers and call times.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: MCI, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman, Ron Zimmerman
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Patent number: 6782083Abstract: 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 device and method uses criteria to define certain calls as “suspect” and parks all suspect calls after the initial call processing. Because the suspect calls are parked and not released to the general switching elements of the telephone network, the suspect calls can be torn down if the associated billing number is marked fraudulent after call processing. The criteria can maintain a fine granularity by using various Call Park Flags in various databases. In addition, the suspect calls can remain parked for varying amounts of time based on the category and type of call.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2001Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: MCI, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer, Jeffrey D. Cahill, David K. Vognsen
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Publication number: 20040008831Abstract: 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 achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device, an override flag is created in the records of the Billing Number Screening (BNS) database. When a call is made using a billing number whose corresponding record has the override flag set, the call is not stopped by fraud control blocks on certain international destinations. In addition, international destinations can be blocked with greater specificity because a Country Set Logic (CSET) field is added to the International City Code Database. The addition of CSET to this database allows particular international city destinations to be blocked from certain origin points.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: WorldCom, INC.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Method and system for using bad billed number records to prevent fraud in a telecommunication system
Patent number: 6636592Abstract: 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 billing product, when the call attempt satisfies any one of a plurality of fraud criteria; storing the at least one BBN in a storage queue for later retrieval; and retrieving and analyzing the at least one BBN to increment a plurality of fraud control counters according to the analysis. A system for using a plurality of BBNs to detect fraud in a telecommunications system includes a network operator service platform (OSP) for generating BBNs based on received call attempts; a network information concentrator (NIC) for temporarily storing the generated BBNs; and a fraud monitoring system for retrieving the stored BBNs, filtering out unidentifiable BBNs, analyzing identifiable BBNs, and generating alarms based on the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer -
Patent number: 6618475Abstract: 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 achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device, an override flag is created in the records of the Billing Number Screening (BNS) database. When a call is made using a billing number whose corresponding record has the override flag set, the call is not stopped by fraud control blocks on certain international destinations. In addition, international destinations can be blocked with greater specificity because a Country Set Logic (CSET) field is added to the International City Code Database. The addition of CSET to this database allows particular international city destinations to be blocked from certain origin points.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 6590967Abstract: 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 terminating ANIs in the database that have generated a fraud alert. The stored numbers include at least a portion of the terminating ANI and at least one variable length character, and are accessible to block subsequent calls directed at the respective terminating ANIs. The at least one processor receives a dialed terminating ANI representing a subsequently dialed call and checks the database to determine if the dialed terminating ANI matches a stored number. The at least one variable length character matches any corresponding character in the dialed terminating ANI. One variable length character may also match one or more subsequent characters in the dialed terminating ANI. A match between the dialed terminating ANI and a stored number initiate a block of the dialed call.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 6570968Abstract: 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 certain threshold. These counts are maintained in relation to particular accounts. A fraud analyst determines whether or not a particular account will have alert suppression enabled, based on the type of account and its history. Once alert suppression is enabled, the count is multiplied by a coefficient before determining whether to issue a threshold alert. If the multiplied count still exceeds the threshold, an alert is generated. If not, no alert is generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2000Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Erin C. Jackman
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Patent number: 6556669Abstract: 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. In the system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is added to the Integrated Services Network (ISN) platform. The records in the Screening for International Calls database are keyed by the country code and contain a field for blocked terminating regions. When an international call is made, the record corresponding to the international origin point is retrieved from the Screening for International Calls database. This record is checked to determine if there are terminating regions indicated in the blocked exchange field. If there are no terminating regions indicated in the blocked exchange field, call processing continues.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Publication number: 20030063725Abstract: 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 billing product, when the call attempt satisfies any one of a plurality of fraud criteria; storing the at least one BBN in a storage queue for later retrieval; and retrieving and analyzing the at least one BBN to increment a plurality of fraud control counters according to the analysis. A system for using a plurality of BBNs to detect fraud in a telecommunications system includes a network operator service platform (OSP) for generating BBNs based on received call attempts; a network information concentrator (NIC) for temporarily storing the generated BBNs; and a fraud monitoring system for retrieving the stored BBNs, filtering out unidentifiable BBNs, analyzing identifiable BBNs, and generating alarms based on the analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: WorldCom, INC.Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer
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Publication number: 20020191767Abstract: 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 device and method uses criteria to define certain calls as “suspect” and parks all suspect calls after the initial call processing. Because the suspect calls are parked and not released to the general switching elements of the telephone network, the suspect calls can be torn down if the associated billing number is marked fraudulent after call processing. The criteria can maintain a fine granularity by using various Call Park Flags in various databases. In addition, the suspect calls can remain parked for varying amounts of time based on the category and type of call.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2001Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer, Jeffrey D. Cahill, David K. Vognsen
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Publication number: 20020186825Abstract: A system and device for blocking fraudulent special service calls in a long distance telephone system is disclosed. The Automatic Number Identifiers (ANIs) of originating numbers within Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) are blocked from calling certain special service call numbers by including the ANI in the special service call number record in the long distance carrier's Service Management System (SMS) database. ANIs to be blocked are selected by fraud control based on certain network traffic flow thresholds. When the switching elements in the long distance carrier retrieve an SMS record for a particular special service call, it is determined whether the origin of the call corresponds to an ANI in the SMS record. If it does, the call is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2001Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventors: Dean C. Marchand, Arthur Lance Springer