Computing Device With Remote Contact Lists
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- generating, by a computer system, a group of telephone contacts for a first user, wherein the generating comprises;
identifying, by the computer system, a second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user; and
adding, by the computer system, the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user;
receiving, at the computer system, a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with the first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user;
identifying, by the computer system, a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user; and
initiating, by the computer system, a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.
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Abstract
In one implementation a computer-implemented method includes generating a group of telephone contacts for a first user, wherein the generating includes identifying a second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user; and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user. The method further includes receiving a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with the first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user. The method also includes identifying a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and initiating a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.
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21 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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generating, by a computer system, a group of telephone contacts for a first user, wherein the generating comprises; identifying, by the computer system, a second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user; and adding, by the computer system, the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user; receiving, at the computer system, a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with the first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user; identifying, by the computer system, a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user; and initiating, by the computer system, a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for placing telephone calls using a remote email address-based contact list, the system comprising:
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one or more servers; an interface to the one or more servers that is configured to receive a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with a first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user; a contact list management module that programmed to generate a group of telephone contacts for the first user by;
identifying the second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user, and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user; anda call request processing component programmed to;
identify a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and to initiate a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.
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21. A system for placing telephone calls using a remote email address-based contact list, the system comprising:
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one or more servers; an interface to the one or more server systems that is configured to receive a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with a first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user; a contact list management module that is configured to generate a group of telephone contacts for the first user by;
identifying the second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user, and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user; andmeans for processing the request to connect the first telephone device with the second telephone device using a generated group of telephone contacts that is configured to;
identify a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and initiate a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.
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