Telephone based method and system for adding contacts to a personal network address book
First Claim
1. A method for populating an electronic address book using a computer with a processor and a memory, said method comprising:
- analyzing information stored in a billing database or call data record, wherein said analyzing is a statistical search;
extracting at least one telephone number from the billing database or the call data record if at least some of the information stored in the billing database or call detail record meets predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria comprises a number of times the user receives a call from the at least one telephone number within a certain time period;
adding the extracted at least one telephone number to the electronic address book; and
deleting from the address book telephone numbers that are stale numbers.
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Abstract
A system and method for adding contact information to a personal network address book is provided. Contact information is added to the address book by analyzing a billing database or call detail record in order to determine telephone numbers which meet predetermined criteria set by a user. Telephone numbers meeting the predetermined criteria are extracted and transferred to the user. The user is prompted for a nickname corresponding to each extracted telephone number. The nickname and the corresponding telephone number are then stored in the personal network address book. In a voice activated dialing system, the user is able to speak the nickname in order to initiate the dialing process.
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41 Claims
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1. A method for populating an electronic address book using a computer with a processor and a memory, said method comprising:
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analyzing information stored in a billing database or call data record, wherein said analyzing is a statistical search; extracting at least one telephone number from the billing database or the call data record if at least some of the information stored in the billing database or call detail record meets predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria comprises a number of times the user receives a call from the at least one telephone number within a certain time period; adding the extracted at least one telephone number to the electronic address book; and deleting from the address book telephone numbers that are stale numbers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system for populating an electronic address book performed by a computer with a processor and a memory comprising:
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an analyzing unit which statistically analyzes-information stored in a billing database or call data record; an extracting unit which extracts at least one telephone number from the billing database or the call data record if at least some of the information stored in the billing database or call detail record meets predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria comprises a number of times the user receives a call from the at least one telephone number within a certain time period; and a transferring unit which adds the extracted at least one telephone number to the electronic address book, wherein the analyzing unit deletes from the address book telephone numbers that are stale numbers. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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