MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517057157 A) filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm, on June 13, for 'verifying a calling party.'

Inventor(s) include Stratoulias, Konstantinos; and Mattila, Leena Marjatta.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods and apparatus are provided. In some examples, a method of verifying a calling party is provided. The method comprises receiving, on a first communication channel, a call request, the call request identifying a calling party, and sending, to the calling party on a second communication channel differe...