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Social context monitor

  • US 8,788,319 B2
  • Filed: 12/30/2005
  • Issued: 07/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of storing contact data about a second person in an electronic contact profile by monitoring electronic computing activities of a first person on a first user computing device, the method comprising:

  • monitoring, using an electronic context monitor, electronic computing activities of the first person on the first user computing device to identify contact data about the second person from an interaction between the second person and the first person using the first user computing device, wherein the first person and the second person are different physical persons and the interaction comprises at least one of a message sent from the first person to the second person and a message received by the first person from the second person;

    creating, based on the monitored electronic computing activities of the first person, an electronic contact profile of the second person who is not a user of the first user computing device, the electronic contact profile storing the contact data about the second person;

    selecting content for presentation to the first person on the first user computing device based on the contact data stored in the electronic contact profile of the second person who is not a user of the first user computing device; and

    presenting the selected content to the first person on the first user computing device.

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