Systems and methods for facilitating identification of communication originators

摘要

Systems, apparatuses and methods for facilitating identification of the originator of a communication. A communication is received from a sending device. Sending device identification information is requested from a distributed contact database fashioned from the contact databases of the communication devices in a group of communication devices. If the sending device identification information is available at a given communication device, it is received from the communication device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a communication from a sending device; requesting sending device identification information from a distributed contact database fashioned from contact databases of communication devices in a group of communication devices, each communication device comprising an end user device; and receiving the requested sending device identification information from at least one of the communication devices in the group.