Patents by Inventor Samuel Kenton Welch
Samuel Kenton Welch 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: 11889021Abstract: One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Publication number: 20230269325Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Publication number: 20230269327Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 11729314Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying a call from a caller and destined for a callee, receiving a data message associated with the call, forwarding the data message to a call processing server, processing the data message to identify one or more call parameters, comparing the one or more call parameters to an active call scam model applied by the call processing server, determining a scam score for the call based on the comparing of the one or more call parameters to the active call scam model applied by the call processing server, and determining whether to notify the callee that the call is a scam based on the scam score.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 11671532Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 11652919Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 11632462Abstract: One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 11368583Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying call data associated with a received call, identifying call parameters from the call data, and the call parameters include one or more call routing parameters associated with call routing of the call and one or more call session parameters associated with a call session of the call, assigning weights to one or more of the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, determining a scam score for the call based on a sum of the weights applied to the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, and blocking the call when the scam score is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold scam score.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 11368582Abstract: One example method of operation may include receiving one or more data messages, identifying calls and corresponding call data from the one or more messages, identifying call parameters from the call data, applying a call activity filter criteria to the call parameters to identify a suspect sub-set of the call parameters which indicate an elevated likelihood of call scam, forwarding the call parameters and the suspect sub-set of call parameters to one or more call data tables, and assigning one or more scam designation threshold scores to the suspect sub-set of the call parameters in the one or more call data tables.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 11290503Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying a call from a caller and destined for a callee, receiving a data message associated with the call, forwarding the data message to a call processing server, processing the data message to identify one or more call parameters, comparing the one or more call parameters to an active call scam model applied by the call processing server, determining a scam score for the call based on the comparing of the one or more call parameters to the active call scam model applied by the call processing server, and determining whether to notify the callee that the call is a scam based on the scam score.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 11184481Abstract: One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Publication number: 20210360105Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Publication number: 20210329125Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 11076044Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Publication number: 20210203780Abstract: One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Publication number: 20210203775Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 11050879Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying one or more call parameters associated with each of a number of calls received over a fixed period of time, assigning scores to each of the calls based on the one or more identified call parameters for each of the plurality of calls, assigning one or more of the calls to a scam call category based on the assigned scores, and responsive to the assigning of the one or more of the calls to a scam call category, determining whether a number of remaining calls of the calls, which are not assigned to the scam call category, have increased or decreased beyond a deviation margin of a target percentage of calls.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventor: Samuel Kenton Welch
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Patent number: 10827061Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying call data associated with a received call, identifying call parameters from the call data, and the call parameters include one or more call routing parameters associated with call routing of the call and one or more call session parameters associated with a call session of the call, assigning weights to one or more of the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, determining a scam score for the call based on a sum of the weights applied to the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, and blocking the call when the scam score is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold scam score.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Patent number: 10805459Abstract: One example method of operation may include receiving one or more data messages, identifying calls and corresponding call data from the one or more messages, identifying call parameters from the call data, applying a call activity filter criteria to the call parameters to identify a suspect sub-set of the call parameters which indicate an elevated likelihood of call scam, forwarding the call parameters and the suspect sub-set of call parameters to one or more call data tables, and assigning one or more scam designation threshold scores to the suspect sub-set of the call parameters in the one or more call data tables.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Andrew Collin Shaddox, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George
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Patent number: 10601986Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying call data associated with a received call, identifying call parameters from the call data, and the call parameters include one or more call routing parameters associated with call routing of the call and one or more call session parameters associated with a call session of the call, assigning weights to one or more of the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, determining a scam score for the call based on a sum of the weights applied to the call routing parameters and the call session parameters, and blocking the call when the scam score is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold scam score.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Andrew Collin Shaddox, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George