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Abstract
Enabling management of contacts includes passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member, bringing the member'"'"'s attention to the recognized set of contacts, enabling the member to name the set of contacts, and enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts.
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23 Claims
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21. A method for enabling the management of contacts, the method comprising:
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passively recognizing that a plurality of contacts are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member; enabling the member to associate an identifier with a contacts list including the passively recognized plurality of contacts; and enabling the member to address future communications to the plurality of contacts, as a group, through use of the identifier associated with the contacts list.
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22. A computer-readable storage medium storing a programmable instructions, which when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to perform a method for enabling the management of contacts, the method comprising:
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passively recognizing that a plurality of contacts are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member; enabling the member to associate an identifier with a contacts list including the passively recognized plurality of contacts; and enabling the member to address future communications to the plurality of contacts, as a group, through use of the identifier associated with the contacts list.
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23. An apparatus for enabling management of contacts comprising:
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a memory device storing instructions; and at least one processor executing the instructions to; passively recognize that a plurality of contacts are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member; enable the member to associate an identifier with a contacts list including the passively recognized plurality of contacts; and enable the member to address future communications to the plurality of contacts, as a group, through use of the identifier associated with the contacts list.
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Specification