Contact list availability prioritization
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1. A method for contact list prioritization according to predicted reachability, the method comprising:
- loading a contact list of contacts in memory of a mobile telephone, wherein the contact list comprises contacts of a common role such that any one of the contacts of the common role are interchangeable with one another;
computing a reachability value for each corresponding contact in the contact list that has been computed for each corresponding contact according to associated mobile telephone usage data of each corresponding contact;
displaying in the mobile telephone ones of the contacts first in the contact list that are determined to be most reachable according to a corresponding reachability value; and
,providing the computed reachability value to a different mobile telephone for use by the different mobile telephone in displaying contacts in a different contact list first according to the computed reachability value.
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Abstract
A method for contact list prioritization according to predicted reachability includes loading a contact list of contacts and retrieving a reachability value for each corresponding contact in the contact list that has been computed for each corresponding contact according to usage data of each corresponding contact for an associated mobile telephone. Thereafter, contacts in the contact list that are determined to be most reachable according to a corresponding reachability value are displayed first.
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1. A method for contact list prioritization according to predicted reachability, the method comprising:
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loading a contact list of contacts in memory of a mobile telephone, wherein the contact list comprises contacts of a common role such that any one of the contacts of the common role are interchangeable with one another; computing a reachability value for each corresponding contact in the contact list that has been computed for each corresponding contact according to associated mobile telephone usage data of each corresponding contact; displaying in the mobile telephone ones of the contacts first in the contact list that are determined to be most reachable according to a corresponding reachability value; and
,providing the computed reachability value to a different mobile telephone for use by the different mobile telephone in displaying contacts in a different contact list first according to the computed reachability value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A data processing system configured for contact list prioritization according to predicted reachability, the system comprising:
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a mobile telephone; a host computer with at least one processor and memory disposed within the mobile telephone; and
,a contact list management module executing in the memory of the host computer, the module comprising program code enabled to load a contact list of contacts in memory of a mobile telephone, wherein the contact list comprises contacts of a common role such that any one of the contacts of the common role are interchangeable with one another, to compute a reachability value for each corresponding contact in the contact list that has been computed for each corresponding contact according to associated mobile telephone usage data of each corresponding contact, to display in a display of the mobile telephone ones of the contacts first in the contact list that are determined to be most reachable according to a corresponding reachability value and to provide the computed reachability value to a different mobile telephone for use by the different mobile telephone in displaying contacts in a different contact list first according to the computed reachability value. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer program product, wherein the computer program product is not a transitory signal, for contact list prioritization according to predicted reachability, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium comprising a storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal, per se, the computer readable program code comprising;
computer readable program code for loading a contact list of contacts in memory of a mobile telephone, wherein the contact list comprises contacts of a common role such that any one of the contacts of the common role are interchangeable with one another;
computer readable program code for retrieving computing a reachability value for each corresponding contact in the contact list that has been computed for each corresponding contact according to associated mobile telephone usage data of each corresponding contact;
computer readable program code for displaying in the mobile telephone ones of the contacts first in the contact list that are determined to be most reachable according to a corresponding reachability value; and
, providing the computed reachability value to a different mobile telephone for use by the different mobile telephone in displaying contacts in a different contact list first according to the computed reachability value. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- a computer readable storage medium comprising a storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal, per se, the computer readable program code comprising;
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