Systems, methods, circuits and associated software for augmenting contact details stored on a communication device with data relating to the contact contained on social networking sites

• US 9,565,551 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2014
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silent Communication Ltd
• Original Assignee: Mobile Synergy Solutions, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Inventors: Bluvband, Max Eitan, Hajdu, Shahar
• Primary Examiner(s): VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN
• Application Number:
  US14/339,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20140329515A1
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53358 Message preview
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and applications for providing messaging services which may provide for download, synchronization, voicemail-message to text-message translation, direct access and handling of selected voicemail messages through a user'"'"'s user interface. Further disclosed are systems, methods, circuits and associated software for retrieving data associated with contacts stored on a communication device from social networking sites and integrating the retrieved data into the operation of the communication device.

Claims

1. A mobile phone comprising:

a local memory adapted to store contacts, wherein a contact includes a phone number and an identity indicator associated with the phone number;

a synchronization engine adapted to;

(a) automatically and independently search third party data storages, via a distributed data network, for data relating to contacts stored in said local memory, wherein automatically and independently defines automated processes independent of user interaction with the process;

(b) automatically and independently correlate a first contact stored in said local memory with data relating to the first contact stored on the third party storages;

(c) automatically and independently retrieve, via the distributed data network, from the third party data storages, the data relating to the first contact; and

(d) automatically and independently associate the retrieved data with the first contact;

and

a presentation and operation module adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the retrieved data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a name associated with the first contact.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said synchronization engine is further adapted to;

a. correlate data contained on multiple different third party storages with the first contact;

b. retrieve the correlated data from the multiple different third party storages;

c. aggregate the data retrieved from the multiple different third party storages;

and

said presentation and operation module is further adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to update the retrieved data, from the third party data storages, upon the first contact calling the mobile phone.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to:

automatically and independently correlate a second contact stored in said local memory with data relating to the second contact stored on the third party storages;

automatically and independently retrieve, via the distributed data network, from the third party data storages, the data relating to the second contact;

automatically and independently associate the retrieved data with the second contact;

automatically and independently update the retrieved data relating to the first contact, from the third party data storages, at a first frequency; and

automatically and independently update the retrieved data relating to the second contact, from the third party data storages, at a second frequency, distinct from the first frequency,

wherein the first and second frequencies are determined automatically and independently by the synchronization engine based on a frequency of communication with the first and second contacts.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein said synchronization engine is further adapted to automatically and independently correlate the data relating to the first contact stored on the third party data storages with the first contact in a case that there are differences between a name associated with the data relating to the first contact stored on the third party data storages and an identity indicator associated with the first contact.

7. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said synchronization engine is further adapted to;

a. automatically and independently correlate a profile contained on a social networking site with the first contact;

b. automatically and independently retrieve from the social networking site data contained in the profile;

c. automatically and independently aggregate the data retrieved from the profile with the data relating to the first contact retrieved from the third party storages;

and

said presentation and operation module is further adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

8. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on an email associated with the first contact.

9. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a phone number associated with the first contact.

10. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein said synchronization engine is adapted to independently detect that a user of the mobile phone is a member of a service associated with the third party data storages.

11. A method for augmenting contact details stored on a mobile phone, said method comprising:

automatically and independently searching, by a processor of the mobile phone, third party data storages, via a distributed data network, for data relating to contacts stored in a local memory of the mobile phone, wherein a contact includes a phone number and an identity indicator associated with the phone number, wherein automatically and independently defines automated processes independent of user interaction with the process;

automatically and independently correlating, by the processor of the mobile phone, a first contact stored in the local memory with data relating to the first contact stored on the third party storages;

automatically and independently retrieving, by the processor of the mobile phone, via the distributed data network, from the third party data storages, the data relating to the first contact;

automatically and independently associating, by the processor of the mobile phone, the retrieved data with the first contact;

and

displaying, in association with the first contact, the retrieved data, upon a graphic user interface of the mobile phone.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a name associated with the first contact.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

a. correlating data contained on multiple different third party storages with the first contact;

b. retrieving the correlated data from the multiple different third party storages;

c. aggregating the data retrieved from the multiple different third party storages; and

d. displaying, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising updating the retrieved data, from the third party data storages, upon the first contact calling the mobile phone.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

automatically and independently correlating a second contact stored in said local memory with data relating to the second contact stored on the third party storages;

automatically and independently retrieving, via the distributed data network, from the third party data storages, the data relating to the second contact;

automatically and independently associating the retrieved data with the second contact;

automatically and independently determining by the synchronization engine a first frequency of updating based on a frequency of communication with the first contact;

automatically and independently updating the retrieved data relating to the first contact, from the third party data storages, at the first frequency; and

automatically and independently determining by the synchronization engine a second frequency of updating based on a second frequency of communication with the second contact;

automatically and independently updating the retrieved data relating to the second contact, from the third party data storages, at the second frequency;

wherein the first frequency is distinct from the second frequency.

16. The method according to claim 12, further comprising automatically and independently correlating the data relating to the first contact stored on the third party data storages with the first contact in a case that there are differences between a name associated with the data relating to the first contact stored on the third party data storages and an identity indicator associated with the first contact.

17. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

a. automatically and independently correlating a profile contained on a social networking site with the first contact;

b. automatically and independently retrieving from the social networking site data contained in the profile;

c. automatically and independently aggregating the data retrieved from the profile with the data relating to the first contact retrieved from the third party storages; and

d. displaying, in association with the first contact, the aggregated data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on an email associated with the first contact.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein said correlation is at least partially based on a phone number associated with the first contact.

20. The method according to claim 11, further comprising automatically and independently detecting, by processing circuitry of the mobile phone, that a user of the mobile phone is a member of a service associated with the third party data storages.