Dialer with real-time reverse look-up including social data

• US 10,666,794 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2017
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yao, Rose, Walkin, Brandon Marshall
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Aftab N.
• Application Number:
  US15/432,851
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163799A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/655 Combination of telephone service and social networking messaging within social networks H04L51/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42102 Making use of the called party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4211 where the identifier is used to access a profile

Abstract

Methods and systems that include, by a client computing device of a first user of a social-networking system, receiving from the first user an identifier associated with an intended recipient to which outgoing communication is to be initiated, wherein the identifier is received via a user interface of an application, identifying, based on the intended recipient, social information relevant to the first user, and displaying, in the user interface, the social information that is relevant to the first user. The identifier may include a phone number or an email address of the intended recipient. The social information may include a name of the intended recipient, and/or a social-network profile of the intended recipient. The intended recipient may be a second user of the social-networking system, and the social information may be identified based on how many degrees of separation there are between the first user and the second user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a client computing device of a first user of a social-networking system, receiving from the first user an identifier associated with an intended recipient to which outgoing communication is to be initiated, wherein the identifier is received via a user interface of an application;

by the client computing device, identifying, based on the intended recipient, a plurality of pieces of social information, wherein each piece of social information is based at least in part on one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient by one or more other users who are connections of the first user;

by the client computing device, displaying, in the user interface, the plurality of pieces of social information, wherein at least one of the pieces of social information is temporally-sensitive, and the temporally-sensitive piece of social information comprises one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient at one or more associated times by the one or more other users who are connections of the first user,

wherein the pieces of social information are displayed in a ranked order in which at least one piece of temporally-sensitive social information has a higher ranking than other social information,

wherein the intended recipient is a second user of the social-networking system, and the social information is identified based on how many degrees of separation there are between the first user and the second user,

wherein the social information comprises a count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user in the social-networking system,

by the client computing device, displaying, in the user interface, an indicator that displays the count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user; and

by the client computing device, when the indicator is selected, displaying, in the user interface, the first-degree connections that are shared between the first user and the second user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier comprises a phone number or an email address of the intended recipient.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the social information comprises a name of the intended recipient, a social-network profile of the intended recipient, or a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the count of how many first-degree connections are shared comprises a count of mutual friends of the first and second users.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first-degree connections that are shared between the first user and the second user comprise mutual friends of the first and second users.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the outgoing communication comprises a text message, a VoIP call, a video chat, or a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the social information is subject to one or more privacy policies associated with the intended recipient in the social-networking system.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein there are two or more degrees of separation between the first and second users, and the social information is limited to public information in the social-networking system.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein there are two or more degrees of separation between the first and second users, and the social information is limited to the one or more privacy policies of the intended recipient and relationship information that associates the first and second users.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein there is one degree of separation between the first and second users, and the one or more privacy policies limit the display of one or more pieces of the social information from one or more members of the social-networking system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the intended recipient represents an entity that is associated with a page in the social-networking system, the page is associated with the identifier, and the one or more pieces of social information are associated with the page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the social networking system creates the page by accessing one or more online directories, and the entity comprises a business, governmental entity, celebrity, place, or a combination thereof.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient by one or more other users who are social connections of the first user comprise “

liking”

the entity, and the social information comprises a count of how many of the first user'"'"'s friends in the social-networking system “

like”

the entity.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the social information comprises a map to a physical location associated with the page, hours of operation of the entity, or a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient at one or more associated times comprise one or more check-ins to a physical location associated with the page.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the temporally-sensitive piece of social information indicates that one or more friends of the user have recently checked into the physical location associated with the page.

17. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

receive, from a first user of a social-networking system, an identifier associated with an intended recipient to which outgoing communication is to be initiated, wherein the identifier is received via a user interface of an application;

identify, based on the intended recipient, a plurality of pieces of social information, wherein each piece of social information is based at least in part on one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient by one or more other users who are connections of the first user;

display, in the user interface, the plurality of pieces of social information, wherein at least one of the pieces of social information is temporally-sensitive, and the temporally-sensitive piece of social information comprises one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient at one or more associated times by the one or more other users who are connections of the first user,

wherein the plurality of pieces of social information are displayed in a ranked order in which at least one piece of temporally-sensitive social information has a higher ranking than other social information,

wherein the intended recipient is a second user of the social-networking system, and the social information is identified based on how many degrees of separation there are between the first user and the second user,

wherein the social information comprises a count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user in the social-networking system,

display, in the user interface, an indicator that displays the count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user; and

when the indicator is selected, display, in the user interface, the first-degree connections that are shared between the first user and the second user.

18. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

receive, from a first user of a social-networking system, an identifier associated with an intended recipient to which outgoing communication is to be initiated, wherein the identifier is received via a user interface of an application;

identify, based on the intended recipient, a plurality of pieces of social information, wherein each piece of social information is based at least in part on one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient by one or more other users who are connections of the first user;

display, in the user interface, the plurality of pieces of social information, wherein at least one of the pieces of social information is temporally-sensitive, and the temporally-sensitive piece of social information comprises one or more actions performed on the social-networking system with respect to the intended recipient at one or more associated times by the one or more other users who are connections of the first user,

wherein the plurality of pieces of social information are displayed in a ranked order in which at least one piece of temporally-sensitive social information has a higher ranking than other social information,

wherein the intended recipient is a second user of the social-networking system, and the social information is identified based on how many degrees of separation there are between the first user and the second user,

wherein the social information comprises a count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user in the social-networking system,

display, in the user interface, an indicator that displays the count of how many first-degree connections are shared between the first user and the second user; and

when the indicator is selected, display, in the user interface, the first-degree connections that are shared between the first user and the second user.