CONTACT MANAGEMENT

• US 20140172805A1
• Filed: 12/19/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Affronti, Michael A., Leung, Derek Y., Tien, Ginger E., Shah, Rikinkumar A.
• Application Number:
  US13/719,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20140172805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/692
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/215 Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The description relates to contact management. One example can be manifest as a system that can include a display and a processor. The processor can be configured to process instructions to create a graphical user interface on the display. The graphical user interface can include an aggregate view of contact information relating to an entity. The graphical user interface can be configured to indicate a source of individual instances of the contact information. The aggregate view can be configured to distinguish first individual instances of the contact information that are editable from second individual instances of the contact information that are read-only.

Claims

1. At least one computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform acts, comprising:

generating an aggregate view of contact information relating to an entity,

wherein the aggregate view indicates sources of individual instances of the contact information, and

wherein the aggregate view distinguishes first individual instances of the contact information that are editable from second individual instances of the contact information that are read-only.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the generating comprises presenting the aggregate view.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the computing device comprises a mobile computing device.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises one or more server computers.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the aggregate view includes multiple instances from multiple different sources and further comprising accessing the multiple different sources to obtain the multiple instances.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising organizing the contact information by properties and normalizing values of the individual instances within an individual property.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, further comprising allowing a user to edit a value of one of the individual instances and applying the edited value to equivalent normalized other individual instances within the individual property.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising autopopulating the edited value to further individual instances within the individual property that are blank.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the autopopulating is performed automatically.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising querying the user whether to perform the autopopulating, and wherein the autopopulating is performed responsive to receiving an affirmative response from the user.

11. A method, comprising:

presenting an aggregate view of contact information relating to a person, wherein the aggregate view indicates a source of individual instances of the contact information, and wherein the aggregate view distinguishes first individual instances of the contact information that are editable from second individual instances of the contact information that are read-only;

allowing a user to edit one of the first individual instances from a first value to a second value;

determining a storage location of the contact information from the one of the first individual instances; and

,

sending the second value to the storage location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the presenting comprises generating the aggregate view.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating is performed by a device upon which the user enters the second value.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining equivalent values to the first value.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising applying the second value to other of the first individual instances that have individual equivalent values to the first value.

16. A system, comprising:

a display;

storage having instructions stored thereon;

a processor configured to process the instructions to create a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display; and

,

the GUI comprising an aggregate view of contact information relating to an entity and the GUI is configured to indicate a source of individual instances of the contact information, wherein the aggregate view is configured to distinguish first individual instances of the contact information that are editable from second individual instances of the contact information that are read-only.

17. The system of claim 16, embodied on a single device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions comprise an aggregation component and an attribution module.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions comprise a contact management application that includes an aggregation component and an attribution module.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor and storage are shared resources or wherein the processor and storage are dedicated resources.