MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547082435 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, U.S.A., on Aug. 29, for 'scrubbing for edge based communication of commercial communications.'

Inventor(s) include Shetty, Shilpa; Karia, Jignesh; Sundararajan, Mukundan; Dayama, Pankaj, Satyanarayan; and Shah, Neha.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An edge device can receive a commercial communication, a scrubbed token list and a telephone number list. Responsive to determining the mobile device is detected in the specific area, whether a telephone number of the mobile device is contained in the telephone number list can be determined. Responsive to determining that the telephone number of the mobile device is contained in the telephone number list, the telephone number of the mobile device, the scrubbed token list and the commercial communication can be communicated to an originating access provider, wherein the originating access provider communicates to the mobile device the commercial communication based, at least in part, upon whether the telephone number of the mobile device matches a token contained in the scrubbed token list."

The patent application was internationally filed on May 01, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/061987.

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