ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,670, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Spammer location detection" was invented by Jie Chen (Watchung, N.J.), Ye Ge (Holmdel, N.J.) and Wenjie Zhao (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards spammer location detection, and in particular, to locating a spammer that makes multiple calls from a given location via a cellular communications network. In some examples, network equipment can obtain call trace records associated with the multiple calls, identify a group of call trace records based on a shared call trace feature, aggregate...