Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user
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1. A method comprising:
- maintaining a list of people associated with a user;
inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user;
adding the inferred person to the list; and
using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list.
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Abstract
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user'"'"'s communications.
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63 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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maintaining a list of people associated with a user;
inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user;
adding the inferred person to the list; and
using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A computer usable medium have a computer program embodied thereon, wherein the computer program comprises instructions for causing a computer to perform the following operations:
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maintain a list of people associated with a user;
infer that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user;
add the inferred person to the list; and
use the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. An apparatus comprising:
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means for maintaining a list of people associated with a user;
means for inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user;
means for adding the inferred person to the list; and
means for using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list.
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