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Associating contextual information with electronic communications

  • US 9,954,945 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2015
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for associating contextual information with an electronic communication, the method comprising:

  • monitoring, by one or more computer processors, one or more activities of a user of a computing device;

    determining, by one or more computer processors, contextual information respectively associated with the one or more monitored activities of the user, wherein the contextual information includes information describing the one or more monitored activities and a geo-location of the computing device and the contextual information is acquired by a gps device embedded within the computing device;

    identifying, by one or more computer processors, the user of the computing device initiating a real-time electronic communication;

    determining, by one or more processors, a set of contextual information respectively associated with the one or more monitored activities of the user that occurs within a window of time, relative to the time that the user of the computing device initiates the real-time electronic communication;

    transmitting, by one or more computer processors, the geo-location of the computing device, and the determined set of contextual information synchronously with the real-time electronic communication;

    modifying, by one or more computer processors, the contextual information related to the real-time electronic communication based, at least in part, on ranking the contextual information, wherein ranking the contextual information is based on information including one or more user preferences, one or more weighting factors, and a time of an activity of the user; and

    editing, by one or more processors, the ranked contextual information, wherein editing further includes determining, by one or more processors, an updated ranking of the contextual information related to the real-time electronic communication based on at least one of;

    modifying the window of time, deleting one or more pieces of ranked contextual information, and one or more user preferences.

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