Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user
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1. A method comprising:
- maintaining a list of people known to a user;
inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on interactions between the user and a received message;
adding the inferred person to the list; and
using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list.
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Abstract
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on interactions between the user and a received message. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user'"'"'s communications.
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1. A method comprising:
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maintaining a list of people known to a user;
inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on interactions between the user and a received message;
adding the inferred person to the list; and
using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A computer usable medium having a computer program embodied thereon, wherein the computer program comprises instructions for causing a computer to perform the following operations:
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maintain a list of people known to a user;
infer that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on interactions between the user and a received message;
add the inferred person to the list; and
use the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. An apparatus comprising:
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means for maintaining a list of people known to a user;
means for inferring that a person is associated with the user based, at least in part, on interactions between the user and a received message;
means for adding the inferred person to the list; and
means for using the list to control aspects of communications between the user and others based on whether the others are included on the list.
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