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Collaborative contact management

  • US 9,558,473 B2
  • Filed: 12/06/2005
  • Issued: 01/31/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of managing a set of collaborative contacts, the method comprising:

  • obtaining identifying text;

    obtaining a set of candidate contacts from the set of collaborative contacts using the identifying text, each candidate contact including a set of collaboration capabilities, each collaboration capability corresponding to an ability of each candidate contact to be contacted using a unique collaboration tool, wherein using the identifying text seeks a match for a name of each candidate contact and a contact information for each collaboration capability of each candidate contact;

    requesting an availability status for each collaboration capability of each candidate contact, wherein the requesting sends a request to each candidate contact'"'"'s collaboration tool corresponding to the unique collaboration tool, and wherein the requesting receives the availability status from each candidate contact'"'"'s collaboration tool;

    ranking the set of candidate contacts based upon the set of collaboration capabilities of each candidate contact; and

    generating a display that includes the ranked set of candidate contacts and each candidate contact'"'"'s set of collaboration capabilities, an icon corresponding to a most preferred collaboration capability, and the availability status for each collaboration capability.

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