Dynamic contact list

• US 8,503,989 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2007
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kasturi, Rohini, Vadlakonda, Sravan, Patel, Alpesh, Kuhlke, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang-Hurst, Kathy
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, MONG-THUY THI
• Application Number:
  US11/876,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20090104895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,115 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/566, 455/550, 455517-519, 455/418, 455/466, 370/230
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system receives a user calling attribute and determines current information of a telephone. The user calling attribute may be derived from a calling routine of a user such as dates and/or times that the user has previously called particular contacts. The system generates a dynamic contact list based on the user calling attribute and the current information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing attributes from a plurality of past phone calls to one or more recipients by a user, where the attributes include the one or more recipients of the plurality of past phone calls and one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls;

indicating a routine based on the stored attributes;

generating one or more reminders for the one or more recipients according to the routine; and

sending the one or more reminders to the one or more recipients according to the routine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored attributes include one or more initiation times of the plurality of past phone calls.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

generating a dynamic contact list including at least one of the one or more recipients according to the routine.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the dynamic contact list is a subset of an overall contact list.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating the dynamic contact list comprises querying a database on a server.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the dynamic contact list includes the one or more recipients in an order determined by comparing calling times of the plurality of past phone calls to a current time.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

displaying the one or more reminders with the dynamic contact list.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating one or more reminders for the user according to the routine.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more reminders for the one or more recipients include the one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a storage device operable to store attributes from a plurality of past phone calls by a user to one or more recipients, where the attributes include the one or more recipients of the plurality of past phone calls and one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls;

a processor operable to;

indicate a routine based on the stored attributes; and

generate one or more reminders for the one or more recipients according to the routine; and

a transmitter operable to send the one or more reminders to the one or more recipients according to the routine.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the stored attributes include one or more initiation times of the plurality of past phone calls.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is also operable to generate a dynamic contact list including at least one of the one or more recipients according to the routine.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the dynamic contact list is a subset of an overall contact list.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the dynamic contact list includes the one or more recipients in an order determined by comparing calling times of the plurality of past phone calls to a current time.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is further operable to determine the one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is further operable to:

generate one or more reminders for the user according to the routine; and

send the one or more reminders for the user to the transmitter according to the routine, wherein the transmitter is further operable to send the one or more reminders for receipt by one or more telephones of the user.

18. A non-transitory computer readable media having encoded logic for execution by a computer, the computer readable media comprising:

logic to store attributes from a plurality of past phone calls to one or more recipients by a user, where the attributes include the one or more recipients of the plurality of past phone calls and one or more locations of the user during times of initiation of the plurality of past phone calls;

logic to indicate a routine based on the stored attributes;

logic to generate one or more reminders for the one or more recipients according to the routine; and

logic to send the one or more reminders to the one or more recipients according to the routine.

19. The computer readable media of claim 18, further comprising logic to generate a dynamic contact list including at least one of the one or more recipients according to the routine.

20. The computer readable media of claim 19, further comprising logic to determine an order of the one or more recipients in the dynamic contact list by comparing calling times of the plurality of past phone calls to a current time.