蘋果申請新專利 iPhone可攔截詐騙電話

Apple feels your spam call pain. The company apparently filed a patent called "Detection of spoofed call information" that would enable an iPhone to check whether a call is legitimate.

蘋果公司已經感受到了你對騷擾電話的煩惱。日前，該公司申請了一項名爲“檢測欺騙性呼叫信息”的專利，該專利可以讓iPhone檢查來電是否合法。

If it's not, the phone would automatically either display a warning to the user or prevent call alerts, such as ringing and vibration. The patent was first spotted by Apple Insider.

如果不合法，那麼手機會自動向用戶顯示警告或阻止來電鈴聲和震動。這項專利最先是由Apple Insider提出的。

How can a phone identify a spam or spoofed call?

那麼，一臺手機如何識別騷擾電話呢？

The patent makes clear that the phone would check against established, legitimate call parameters in order to determine the validity of a call that's being connected.

專利明確規定，手機將根據已建立的合法通話參數進行檢查，以確定來電的真實性。

The phone would analyze the information being sent over the call, including network equipment identifiers, server identifiers and more.

手機可以分析出騷擾來電發出的信息，包括網絡設備標識符、服務器標識符等等。

Apple isn't the only handset manufacturer working on this kind of technology. At Google's event this week, the company introduced a Call Screen feature that utilizes Google Assistant to help weed out spam calls.

蘋果並不是唯一一家致力於研究此類技術的手機制造商。谷歌公司在本週的活動中推出了一項屏幕呼叫功能，利用谷歌助手來清除垃圾電話。

Additionally, an update to the company's phone app from earlier this year sends spam calls directly to voicemail.

此外，該公司今年早些時候對手機應用程序進行升級，可以將騷擾電話直接轉移到語音信箱。

It's important to note that Apple files many patents that it doesn't actually do anything with.

值得注意的是，蘋果公司申請了許多實際上並沒有商業應用的專利。

But with spam calls on the rise, and people getting more and more frustrated by them (how many of you actually answer phone calls from numbers you don't recognize anymore?), having a feature like this on the iPhone could be incredibly useful.

但隨着騷擾電話數量的增加，人們對騷擾電話越來越無奈（你們中有多少人實際上接聽了自己不認識的電話號碼？），在iPhone手機上安裝這樣的功能可能會非常有用。