SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING SUSPICIOUS VOICE CALLS

Patent №

US 10,657,971

Granted

2020-05-19

Filed 2017

Owner

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

3

speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15842917

The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting suspicious voice calls may include (i) identifying an incoming voice call, (ii) extracting, from audio of the incoming voice call, a plurality of characteristics, (iii) calculating a trustworthiness score of the plurality of the characteristics based on a response by a recipient of the incoming voice call, and (iv) storing the trustworthiness score of the plurality of characteristics in a reputation database that (a) receives a request for the trustworthiness score, the request originating from an additional computing device and including an additional plurality of characteristics extracted from an additional incoming voice call, (b) determines that the additional plurality of characteristics matches the plurality of characteristics, and (c) enables the additional computing device to perform a security action on the additional incoming voice call by sending the trustworthiness to the additional computing device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

SpeechPlanningAI hardwareG10L 17/26G06N 20/00G10L 15/1807G10L 15/26G10L 17/00H04M 3/2281G10L 25/48H04M 2201/40+1 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.99
Speech0.98
Knowledge representation0.41
Vision0.10
Machine learning0.09
Natural language0.08
Evolutionary computation0.04

Ownership

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 444030683

Assignors

NEWSTADT, KEITH, SOKOLOV, ILYA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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