US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Spam detection and message tagging in telecommunications networks" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,267, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Spam detection and message tagging in telecommunications networks" was invented by Sean P. Hoelzle (Collegeville, Pa.) and Clint Hammond (Burleson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to tagging messages on a telecommunications network to convey, to the receiving device, information regarding the message, such as potential malicious nature and intent. In an example, a telecommunications network node receives a request to transmit an SMS message from a first mobile device to a second mobile device. The telecommunications network node u...