US Patent Issued to Ribbon Communications Operating on April 22 for "Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,314, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ribbon Communications Operating Co. Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation" was invented by Shaun J. Bharrat (Edison, N.J.) and John W. Hutchins (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation are described herein. One or more embodiments include receiving a scoring request including a telephone number associated with a telephone call at a scoring device from a call processing entity, receiving a violator list of telephone numbers and their corresponding severity values at the scoring device from an...