Determining a prioritized list of telephone numbers for a specific user

• US 9,614,950 B1
• Filed: 12/07/2015
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Stevanovic, Miroslav, Adesina, Opeyemi, Abdelzad, Vahdat, Elnajjar, Hassan, Gautama, Neeraj R.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, NHAN T
• Application Number:
  US14/961,816
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 4555501, 455557, 4555759
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6083 by interfacing with the vehicle audio system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724098 Interfacing with an on-board device of a vehicle for hands-free speaking in vehicles H04M1/6075
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

An application is automatically launched in response to identifying a specific user in the vehicle. Upon launching the application, a historical calling profile is automatically downloaded for the user. The historical calling profile includes individual vehicle call records. The historical calling profile is updated with vehicle call record(s) corresponding to each instance of an outgoing call placed while the user is in the vehicle. A probability of a telephone number being chosen for an outgoing call, within time increments while the user is in the vehicle or in response to a request, is dynamically determined. The probability is dependent upon location data points retrieved from the individual vehicle call records. A list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability is dynamically generated. A most recently generated list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability is caused to be displayed on a vehicle display while the user is in the vehicle.

Claims

1. A method for determining a prioritized list of telephone numbers for a specific user, the method comprising:

in response to identifying the specific user in a vehicle, automatically launching a call log application in the vehicle;

upon launching the call log application, automatically downloading a historical calling profile for the specific user, the historical calling profile including individual vehicle call records;

updating the historical calling profile with a vehicle call record corresponding to each instance of an outgoing call placed while the specific user is in the vehicle;

dynamically determining a probability of a telephone number being chosen for an outgoing call within respective predetermined time increments while the specific user is in the vehicle or in response to a user request, the probability being dependent upon location data points retrieved from the individual vehicle call records;

dynamically generating a list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability; and

causing a most recently generated list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability to be displayed on a vehicle display while the specific user is in the vehicle.

2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein:

each of the individual vehicle call records consists of i) at least one of the location data points, wherein the at least one of the location data points represents a location of a calling vehicle from which a prior outgoing call was made, ii) month, day, and hour data points at which the prior outgoing call was made, and iii) a subject phone number of the prior outgoing call; and

the probability is also dependent upon ii and iii.

3. The method as defined in claim 2 wherein the at least one of the location data points is selected from the group consisting of a latitude data point of the calling vehicle, a longitude data point of the calling vehicle, an elevation data point of the calling vehicle, and combinations thereof.

4. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein prior to dynamically determining the probability, the method further comprises retrieving respective location data points from each of the individual vehicle call records, wherein the respective location data points from each of the individual vehicle call records includes from 5 to 30 of the location data points collected at individual seconds during a duration of a prior outgoing call associated with the individual vehicle call record.

5. The method as defined in claim 4 wherein each of the 5 to 30 location data points is selected from the group consisting of a latitude data point for a calling vehicle from which the prior outgoing call was made, a longitude data point for the calling vehicle, an elevation data point for the calling vehicle, and combinations thereof.

6. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the dynamically determining of the probability and the dynamically generating of the list includes:

determining a first probability of the telephone number being chosen for the outgoing call within a first of the respective predetermined time increments;

in response to the first probability, dynamically generating a first list of telephone numbers sorted by the first probability;

while the specific user is in the vehicle, determining a second probability of the telephone number being chosen for the outgoing call within a next of the respective predetermined time increments upon an expiration of the first of the respective predetermined time increments; and

in response to the second probability, dynamically generating a second list of telephone numbers sorted by the second probability.

7. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

generating the probability of each telephone number in the historical calling profile being chosen for an outgoing call; and

incorporating from 1 telephone number to 5 telephone numbers in the most recently generated list.

8. A system for determining a prioritized list of telephone numbers for a specific user, the system comprising:

a server; and

a vehicle that is remote from the server, the vehicle including;

a recognition system to recognize the specific user;

a display;

a vehicle communications platform including a microprocessor and a memory; and

a call log application stored on the memory and executed by the microprocessor to;

automatically launch in response to the recognition system identifying the specific user;

automatically download, from the server, a historical calling profile for the specific user, the historical calling profile including individual vehicle call records;

update the historical calling profile with a vehicle call record corresponding to each instance of an outgoing call placed while the specific user is in the vehicle;

dynamically determine a probability of a telephone number being chosen for an outgoing call within respective predetermined time increments while the specific user in in the vehicle or in response to a user request while the specific user is in the vehicle, the probability being dependent upon location data points retrieved from the individual vehicle call records;

dynamically generate a list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability; and

cause a most recently generated list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability to be displayed on the display while the specific user is in the vehicle.