Electronic apparatus and user profile estimating method thereof

• US 9,917,919 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Hee Jun, Kim, Joo Seuk, Yang, Jong Eun, Moon, Jin Ho, Park, Hee Seon
• Primary Examiner(s): MAPA, MICHAEL Y
• Application Number:
  US14/974,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20160182676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 4554141, 455418-420, 4554323
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one of a contact list or a call list, a communication module configured to transmit a phone number, included in at least one of the contact list or the call list, to a server and receive company information, associated with the phone number, from the server, and a control module configured to estimate a user profile using at least one of a word included in the contact list or a word included in the company information.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store at least one of a contact list or a call list;

a transceiver configured to;

transmit a phone number, included in at least one of the contact list or the call list, to a server, and

receive company information, associated with the phone number, from the server; and

at least one processor configured to;

extract a word, associated with a user profile, from among a word included in the company information using a word list associated with the user profile, and

estimate the user profile using the extracted word,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to estimate the user profile using at least one of;

probability information that a user making a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word corresponds to the user profile,

probability information that a user corresponding to the user profile makes a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word,

ratio information of users, corresponding to the user profile, to all users, or

ratio information of users, storing the extracted word, to all users.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the company information comprises at least one of a district, a company name, or a business category.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit a phone number, not stored in the contact list, from among phone numbers included in the call list to the server.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit a phone number, being within a specific time, from among phone numbers included in the call list or a specific number of recent phone number from among phone numbers included in the call list to the server.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to extract a word, associated with the user profile, from among words included in a specific group of the contact list.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to estimate the user profile based on a number of the extracted words.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the user profile comprises at least one of a sex, an age group, an occupation, whether he or she is married, whether he or she plans to marry, whether he or she has children, whether he or she has a pet, whether he or she has a car, whether he or she has moved to a new place, or a residential district.

8. A user profile estimating method of an electronic device, the method comprising:

storing at least one of a contact list or a call list in a memory;

transmitting a phone number, included in at least one of the contact list or the call list, to a server;

receiving company information, associated with the phone number, from the server;

extracting a word, associated with a user profile, from among a word included in the company information using a word list associated with the user profile; and

estimating the user profile using the extracted word,

wherein the estimating of the user profile using the extracted word comprises estimating the user profile using at least one of;

probability information that a user making a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word corresponds to the user profile,

probability information that a user corresponding to the user profile makes a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word,

ratio information of users, corresponding to the user profile, to all users, or

ratio information of users, storing the extracted word, to all users.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the company information comprises at least one of a district, a company name, or a business category.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting of the phone number comprises:

transmitting a phone number, not stored in the contact list, from among phone numbers included in the call list to the server.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting of the phone number comprises:

transmitting a phone number, being within a specific time, from among phone numbers included in the call list or a specific number of recent phone number from among phone numbers included in the call list to the server.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the extracting of the word comprises:

extracting words, associated with the user profile, from among words included in a specific group of the contact list.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the estimating of the user profile using the extracted word comprises:

estimating the user profile based on a number of the extracted words.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the user profile comprises at least one of a sex, an age group, an occupation, whether he or she is married, whether he or she plans to marry, whether he or she has children, whether he or she has a pet, whether he or she has a car, whether he or she has moved to a new place, or a residential district.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to store one or more computer programs including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to control for:

storing at least one of a contact list or a call list in a memory;

transmitting a phone number, included in at least one of the contact list or the call list, to a server;

receiving company information, associated with the phone number, from the server; and

extracting a word, associated with a user profile, from among a word included in the company information using a word list associated with the user profile; and

estimating the user profile using the extracted word,

wherein the estimating of the user profile using the extracted word comprises estimating the user profile using at least one of;

probability information that a user making a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word corresponds to the user profile,

probability information that a user corresponding to the user profile makes a call using a phone number associated with the extracted word,

ratio information of users, corresponding to the user profile, to all users, or

ratio information of users, storing the extracted word, to all users.