US Patent Issued to Avaya Management on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for preventing toll fraud in a SIP environment" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,086, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Avaya Management LP (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for preventing toll fraud in a SIP environment" was invented by Jinson Abraham (Stittsville, Canada) and Hrishikesh Ulhas Mahajan (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes storing user information including tying information and a password, wherein the tying information includes a communication address and a device identifier that ties the communication address to a communication device. The method also includes receiving the communication address and password encrypted using a digital certificate associated with the c...