US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 3 for "Screening calls natively in an IP multimedia subsystem network" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,169, issued on March 3, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Screening calls natively in an IP multimedia subsystem network" was invented by Anselmo Myungsup Shim (Bellevue, Wash.), Jim Udom (Woodinville, Wash.), Jason Cataquis (Bellevue, Wash.), Alejandro Lucero (Maple Valley, Va.), Saqib Badar (Bellevue, Wash.) and Albert Bryan Kwong (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of a telecommunications network that uses IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network elements to screen inbound calls. A Media Resource Function (MRF) intercepts an inbound call and uses various techniques to screen the call. The MRF redir...