Methods and apparatuses for interpreting a phone number

• US 10,154,128 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2017
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Inventors: Wang, Shuo, Bao, Xiehao, Yang, Wankun
• Primary Examiner(s): Wyche, Myron K
• Application Number:
  US15/408,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20170289326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided for interpreting a phone number in the field of information technology. The method includes: determining whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book if receiving a call; searching a message with content containing the phone number when it is determined that the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book; obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message, in which the predetermined type information at least includes name information; and displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a smart device, whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book when receiving a call;

when the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book, searching, by the smart device, a message with a content containing the phone number from historical messages satisfying a predetermined condition, wherein the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition include at least one of;

messages received within a predetermined period of time before the call, and historical messages from sending accounts located in a white list, wherein the white list is configured to store sending accounts of lawful merchants;

when the message with the content containing the phone number is searched from the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition, extracting, by the smart device, predetermined type information from the content of the message obtained from the historical messages, wherein the predetermined type information comprises name information; and

displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the smart device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message comprises:

determining a merchant identifier corresponding to a sending account of the message according to a correspondence between sending accounts and merchant identifiers; and

obtaining the name information in the message according to a message template corresponding to the merchant identifier.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message comprises:

matching a merchant identifier in a pre-stored merchant identifier list with a character string in the message one by one to determine a merchant identifier in the message; and

obtaining the name information in the message according to a message template corresponding to the merchant identifier.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined type information further comprises a merchant identifier, and obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message further comprises:

taking the merchant identifier related to the message as a portion of the predetermined type information.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

taking the name information and the phone number as a correspondence, storing the correspondence in a temporary list of the address book, wherein a storage duration of a correspondence in the temporary list is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the temporary list when the storage duration of the correspondence in the temporary list reaches to the predetermined duration; and

taking the name information and the phone number as the correspondence, storing the correspondence in the address book, marking the correspondence, wherein a storage duration of the marked correspondence is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the address book when the storage duration of the marked correspondence reaches to the predetermined duration.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

transferring the correspondence between the phone number and the name information from the temporary list to a non-temporary list of the address book or removing the mark of the correspondence between the phone number and the name information, when a number of communications between the phone number and the smart device reaches to a predetermined threshold and the storage duration does not reach to the predetermined duration,

wherein the number of communications includes at least one of the following numbers;

a number of incoming calls from the phone number, a number of outgoing calls to the phone number, a number of incoming messages sent by the phone number, and a number of outgoing messages to the phone number.

7. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store an instruction executable by the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to;

determine whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book when receiving a call;

when the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book, search a message with a content containing the phone number from historical messages satisfying a predetermined condition, wherein the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition include at least one of;

messages received within a predetermined period of time before the call, and historical messages from sending accounts located in a white list, wherein the white list is configured to store sending accounts of lawful merchants;

when the message with the content containing the phone number is searched from the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition, extract predetermined type information from the content of the message obtained from the historical messages, wherein the predetermined type information at least comprises name information; and

display the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the processor is configured to obtain predetermined type information from the content of the message by acts of:

determining a merchant identifier corresponding to a sending account of the message according to a correspondence between sending accounts and merchant identifiers; and

obtaining the name information in the message according to a message template corresponding to the merchant identifier.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the processor is configured to obtain predetermined type information from the content of the message by acts of:

matching a merchant identifier in a pre-stored merchant identifier list with a character string in the message one by one to determine a merchant identifier in the message; and

obtaining the name information in the message according to a message template corresponding to the merchant identifier.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined type information further comprises a merchant identifier, and the processor is configured to obtain predetermined type information from the content of the message by an act of:

taking the merchant identifier related to the message as a portion of the predetermined type information.

11. The device according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to perform at least one of following acts:

taking the name information and the phone number as a correspondence, storing the correspondence in a temporary list of the address book, wherein a storage duration of a correspondence in the temporary list is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the temporary list if the storage duration of the correspondence in the temporary list reaches to the predetermined duration; and

taking the name information and the phone number as the correspondence, storing the correspondence in the address book, marking the correspondence, wherein a storage duration of the marked correspondence is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the address book if the storage duration of the marked correspondence reaches to the predetermined duration.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

transfer the correspondence between the phone number and the name information from the temporary list to a non-temporary list of the address book or remove the mark of the correspondence between the phone number and the name information, when a number of communications between the phone number and the device reaches to a predetermined threshold and the storage duration does not reach to the predetermined duration,

wherein the number of communications includes at least one of the following numbers;

a number of incoming calls from the phone number, a number of outgoing calls to the phone number, a number of incoming messages sent by the phone number, and a number of outgoing messages to the phone number.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, causes the device to perform acts comprising:

determining whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book when receiving a call;

when the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book, searching a message with a content containing the phone number from historical messages satisfying a predetermined condition, wherein the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition include at least one of;

messages received within a predetermined period of time before the call, and historical messages from sending accounts located in a white list, wherein the white list is configured to store sending accounts of lawful merchants;

when the message with the content containing the phone number is searched from the historical messages satisfying the predetermined condition, extracting predetermined type information from the content of the message obtained from the historical messages, wherein the predetermined type information at least comprises name information; and

displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message comprises:

determining a merchant identifier corresponding to a sending account of the message according to a correspondence between sending accounts and merchant identifiers, or matching a merchant identifier in a pre-stored merchant identifier list with a character string in the message one by one to determine a merchant identifier in the message; and

obtaining the name information in the message according to a message template corresponding to the merchant identifier.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined type information further comprises a merchant identifier, and obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message further comprises:

taking the merchant identifier related to the message as a portion of the predetermined type information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the acts further comprise at least one of following:

taking the name information and the phone number as a correspondence, storing the correspondence in a temporary list of the address book, wherein a storage duration of a correspondence in the temporary list is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the temporary list if the storage duration of the correspondence in the temporary list reaches to the predetermined duration; and

taking the name information and the phone number as a correspondence, storing the correspondence in the address book, marking the correspondence, wherein a storage duration of the marked correspondence is a predetermined duration, and deleting the correspondence from the address book if the storage duration of the marked correspondence reaches to the predetermined duration.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the acts further comprise:

transferring the correspondence between the phone number and the name information from the temporary list to a non-temporary list of the address book or removing the mark of the correspondence between the phone number and the name information, when a number of communications between the phone number and the device reaches to a predetermined threshold and the storage duration does not reach to the predetermined duration;

wherein the number of communications includes at least one of the following numbers;

a number of incoming calls from the phone number, a number of outgoing calls to the phone number, a number of incoming messages sent by the phone number, and a number of outgoing messages to the phone number.