AGGREGATED VIEW OF LOCAL AND REMOTE SOCIAL INFORMATION
First Claim
1. A method for presenting an aggregated view of social information to a user, the method comprising:
- accessing local social information;
accessing remote social information;
associating at least some of the accessed local and remote social information with a contact person;
reviewing at least some of the accessed local and remote social information to develop an aggregation; and
based, at least in part, on the developed aggregation, presenting a social-information view to a user.
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Abstract
Disclosed are a system and method for gathering social information that is of interest to a user of a communications device. Information is gathered both from the device itself (e.g., call logs) and remotely (e.g., from social-networking web sites). The gathered information is then intelligently aggregated and presented to the user in a unified format. In many cases, each piece of social information is associated with at least one virtual identity. Some embodiments rationalize the display of social information by using a contact-identity database that associates a contact person with his multiple virtual identities. In some embodiments, the user can specify how the information is to be displayed and can specify ways to filter the information. For example, the user can specify which contact people are of interest and can filter their social information based on the type of the information and the time at which the information was posted.
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1. A method for presenting an aggregated view of social information to a user, the method comprising:
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accessing local social information; accessing remote social information; associating at least some of the accessed local and remote social information with a contact person; reviewing at least some of the accessed local and remote social information to develop an aggregation; and based, at least in part, on the developed aggregation, presenting a social-information view to a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A personal telecommunications device, the device comprising:
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a telecommunications transmitter/receiver system; a local social information store; a program for accessing remote social information; a program for developing an aggregation of local and remote social information; and an interface for presenting to a user a social-information view, the social information view based, at least in part, on the developed aggregation. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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