Systems, Methods, Circuits and Associated Software for Augmenting Contact Details Stored on a Communication Device with Data Relating to the Contact Contained on Social Networking Sites

• US 20130252599A1
• Filed: 05/20/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silent Communication Ltd
• Original Assignee: Silent Communication Ltd
• Inventors: Bluvband, Max Eitan, Hajdu, Shahar
• Granted Patent: US 8,792,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53358 Message preview
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and applications for providing messaging services which may provide for download, synchronization, voicemail-message to text-message translation, direct access and handling of selected voicemail messages through a user'"'"'s user interface. Further disclosed are systems, methods, circuits and associated software for retrieving data associated with contacts stored on a communication device from social networking sites and integrating the retrieved data into the operation of the communication device.

Claims

1. A mobile phone comprising:

a local memory adapted to store contacts, wherein a contact includes a phone number and an identity indicator associated with the phone number;

a synchronization engine adapted to;

(a) correlate a first profile contained on a first social networking site with a first contact stored in said local memory;

(b) retrieve from the first social networking site data contained in the first profile; and

(c) associate the retrieved data with the first contact;

and

a presentation and operation module adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the retrieved data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to update the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, substantially continuously.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to update the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, periodically.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to update the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, upon the occurrence of an event on said mobile phone relating to the first contact.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising a social networking site adapter adapted to communicate with an application programming interface provided by the first social networking site.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to correlate the first profile with the first contact in a case that there are differences between a name associated with the first profile and an identity indicator associated with the first contact.

7. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said synchronization engine is further adapted to;

a. correlate a second profile contained on a second social networking site with the first contact;

b. retrieve from the second social networking site data contained in the second profile;

c. aggregate and synchronize the data retrieved from the first and second profiles;

and

said presentation and operation module is further adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

8. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on an email associated with the first contact.

9. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a phone number associated with the first contact.

10. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is adapted to independently detect that a user of the mobile phone is a member of the first social networking site.

11. A method for augmenting contact details stored on a mobile phone, said method comprising:

correlating a first profile contained on a first social networking site with a first contact stored in a local memory of the mobile phone, wherein a contact includes a phone number and an identity indicator associated with the phone number;

retrieving from the first social networking site data contained in the first profile;

associating the retrieved data with the first contact;

and

displaying, in association with the first contact, the retrieved data, upon a graphic user interface of the mobile phone.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising updating the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, substantially continuously.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising updating the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, periodically.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising updating the retrieved data, from the first social networking site, upon the occurrence of an event on the mobile phone relating to the first contact.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising communicating with an application programming interface provided by the first social networking site using a social networking site adapter.

16. The method according to claim 11, further comprising correlating the first profile with the first contact in a case that there are differences between a name associated with the first profile and an identity indicator associated with the first contact.

17. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

a. correlating a second profile contained on a second social networking site with the first contact;

b. retrieving from the second social networking site data contained in the second profile;

c. aggregating and synchronizing the data retrieved from the first and second profiles; and

d. displaying, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on an email associated with the first contact.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a phone number associated with the first contact.

20. The method according to claim 11, further comprising. independently detecting, by processing circuitry of the mobile phone, that a user of the mobile phone is a member of the first social networking site.