US Patent 8107459 Method and apparatus for executing a call blocking function

A method and apparatus for executing a call blocking function in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, monitoring data is received from at least one network component in the communications network. The monitoring data is then analyzed to determine a fraudulent index that is associated with at least one endpoint device number. In the event the fraudulent index exceeds a predefined threshold level, a call blocking function is executed on the at least one endpoint device number.