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Self populating address book

  • US 9,275,126 B2
  • Filed: 11/19/2013
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • forming a first address book of a user, the first address book comprising first person profiles including a profile of a first sender;

    updating, by a computing device, the first person profiles using information extracted from communications received by the user from senders including the first sender, the information extracted from bodies of the communications, and information extracted from at least one online social network;

    receiving a selection by the user of a subset of the first person profiles to be shared, the selection based on a search of the information extracted from the social network and the information extracted from the communications received by the user in the first person profiles to identify profiles that satisfy a keyword search criterion, the identified profiles including the profile of the first sender, and satisfaction of the keyword search criterion comprising a match to the information extracted from the social network;

    sharing the subset with the first sender;

    receiving a portion of a second address book from the first sender, the portion including second person profiles; and

    adding, by the computing device, the second person profiles to the first address book.

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