MANAGING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS

• US 20170359302A1
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: VAN OS, Marcel, BAUER, Sebastian, JON, Tiffany S., RYAN, Nicole R.
• Granted Patent: US 11,580,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0024 Services and arrangements where telephone services are combined with data services arrangements which combine a telephonic equipment and a computer H04M7/0012

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to contact management and communication with contacts. On a portable electronic device having a display a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts are displayed. A first user input is received selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts. In response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, a contact information interface is displayed for the first contact. The contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact. The first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

on an portable electronic device having a display;

displaying a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts;

receiving first user input selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts; and

in response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, displaying a contact information interface for the first contact, wherein the contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact, and wherein the first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, prior to the electronic device displaying the contact information interface:

determining the set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact information interface is a first party application and includes links to a plurality of first party applications.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a second user input selecting a contact interface object for the contact identification field; and

in response to receiving the second user input, initiating a communication via the first communication application using a unit of contact information associated with the first contact identification field.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a unit of contact information is associated with the first contact identification field and a second contact identification field for the first contact does not have an associated unit of contact information, the method further comprising:

displaying the unit of contact information for the first contact identification field with the first contact identification field in the contact information interface; and

forgoing display of the second contact identification field based on the absence of a unit for contact information data associated with the second contact identification field.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the unit of contact information for the first contact identification field is based on content of communications with the first contact.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

displaying on the contact information interface an indication with the contact identification field that the unit of contact information is based on content of communications with the first contact; and

in response to receiving a request to remove the indication, removing the indication while maintaining the unit of contact information in the contact information interface.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the first contact data for the first contact identification field was provided via an input interface of the portable electronic device.

9. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving a third user input to enter an edit mode for a first contact;

in response to receiving the third user input, displaying a contact edit interface including the second contact identification field.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact information interface includes a recommendation of a unit of contact information for the first contact identification field received from a third-party communication application of the set of communication applications.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving external contact data from an external electronic device, wherein the external contact data includes a unit of contact information for the first communication application; and

associating the unit of contact information with the first contact identification field.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact information interface includes:

a plurality of units of contact information which can be used to communicate with the first contact via one or more types of communication;

a set of one or more preferred-communication affordances for initiating communication with the first contact via different types of communication that are visually separated from the plurality of units of contact information,

the method further comprising;

detecting selection of a respective preferred-communication affordance of the set of one or more preferred-communication affordances that is associated with a respective type of communication; and

in response to detecting selection of the respective preferred-communication affordance, initiating the respective type of communication with the first user via a preferred unit of contact information that is associated with the respective preferred-communication affordance.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the first contact is associated with a plurality of units of contact information that are configured to be used to communicate with the first contact via the respective type of communication, and

the preferred unit of contact information is one of the units of contact information that are configured to be used to communicate with the first contact.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of one or more preferred-communication affordances includes two or more of:

a voice communication affordance, a text communication affordance, a video communication affordance, an email communication affordance.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the preferred unit of contact information is a unit of contact information for a third-party application.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

further in response to the selection of the respective preferred-communication affordance and in accordance with a determination that preferred contact information has not been selected for the respective preferred-communication affordance, displaying, on the display representations of a plurality of units of contact information for the first contact that are available to be selected as preferred contact information for the type of communication represented by the respective preferred-communication affordance; and

while displaying the representations of a plurality units of contact information, receiving fourth user input selecting an available unit of contact information as the preferred contact information for the type of communication represented by the respective preferred-communication affordance; and

in response to receiving the fourth user input, selecting the available unit of contact information as the preferred contact information for the type of communication represented by the respective preferred-communication affordance.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein determining a preferred unit of contact information for the respective preferred-communication affordance is based on past communications on the portable electronic device with the first contact.

18. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

receiving fifth user input selecting an affordance of the set of one or more preferred-communication affordances;

in response to receiving the fifth user input, determining whether a duration of the fifth user input exceeds a threshold;

in accordance with a determination that the duration exceeds the threshold, entering a contact information selection interface to select an available unit of contact information as the preferred contact information for the type of communication represented by the selected affordance.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein initiating the respective type of communication with the first user via a preferred unit of contact information that is associated with the respective affordance includes:

in accordance with a determination that the respective preferred-communication affordance is associated with a unit of contact information that is associated with a first-party application, initiating the respective type of communication with the first-party application; and

in accordance with a determination that the respective preferred-communication affordance is associated with a unit of contact information that is associated with a third-party application, initiating the respective type of communication with the third-party application.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the respective type of communication is a voice call;

initiating the respective type of communication with the first-party application includes displaying a first-party calling user interface; and

initiating the respective type of communication with the third-party application includes displaying the first-party calling user interface with a displayed label indicating the name of the third-party application that is being used to initiate the communication.

21. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

while displaying the contact information interface, receiving user input corresponding to a swipe gesture;

in response to receiving the user input corresponding to the swipe gesture, replacing display of the contact information interface with display of a dashboard interface for the first contact, wherein the dashboard interface includes aggregated information associated with the first contact that has been retrieved from a plurality of applications on the device.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the aggregated information is divided into a plurality of regions associated with different applications.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the plurality of applications includes one or more first-party applications, and one or more third-party applications.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of communications applications include one or more messaging applications.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of communications applications include one or more social networking applications.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of communications applications include one or more voice over IP (VOIP) applications.

27. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

one or more input devices;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts;

receiving first user input selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts; and

in response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, displaying a contact information interface for the first contact, wherein the contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact, and wherein the first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.

28. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display and one or more input devices, cause the device to:

display a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts;

receive first user input selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts; and

in response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, display a contact information interface for the first contact, wherein the contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact, and wherein the first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.