APPLICATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA

• US 20100293247A1
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: SIEH, Hubert, SCHULTZ, Paul T., SARTINI, Robert A., MCKEE, Martin W.
• Application Number:
  US12/467,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20100293247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

A method may include transmitting or receiving a communication in a non-social network, where the communication is between a user and one or more other users, selecting a social network based on the communication, accessing the social network, searching for social network information related to the one or more other users, retrieving the social network information based on the searching, and providing a non-social network service based on the social network information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting or receiving a communication, by a user device, in a non-social network, where the communication is between a user and one or more other users;

selecting, by the user device or by a device in the non-social network, a social network based on the communication;

accessing, by the user device or by the device in the non-social network, the social network;

searching, by the user device or by the device in the non-social network, for social network information related to the one or more other users;

retrieving, by the user device or by the device in the non-social network, the social network information based on the searching; and

providing, by the user device or the device in the non-social network, a non-social network service based on the social network information.

2. The method of claim 1, where the communication includes a telephone call or a video call.

3. The method of claim 1, the selecting comprising:

selecting, by the user device or by the device in the non-social network, the social network based on session information associated with the communication.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the user device or by the device in the non-social network, the non-social network service to be provided to the user, where the non-social network service includes at least one of providing the social network information to a user of the user device or screening the communication based on the social network information.

5. The method of claim 1, the providing comprising:

displaying, by the user device, the social network information in connection with the communication.

6. The method of claim 1, the providing comprising:

screening, by the device in the non-social network, the receiving of the communication based on the social network information.

7. The method of claim 6, where the social network information includes a social graph associated with the user, the social graph includes one or more relational links that correspond to one or more measures of importance of the one or more other users to the user, and the screening comprising:

determining, when the communication is received, whether the communication should be accepted by the user device or sent to a voicemail system based on the user'"'"'s social graph.

8. The method of claim 6, where the social network information includes a shared data-pool of call tags, where the call tags characterize the communication based on feedback from users of the social network, and the screening comprising:

determining, when the communication is received, whether the communication should be blocked based on one of the call tags that corresponds to the communication or forwarded.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, by a user device, a user input to execute a communication client capable of receiving communications associated with a non-social network service;

selecting, by the user device or by a device of a non-social network, a social network based on the execution of the communication client;

accessing, by the user device or by the device of the non-social network, the social network;

searching, by the user device or by the device of the non-social network, the social network for social network information;

retrieving, by the user device or by the device of the non-social network, the social network information; and

performing, by the user device, at least one of;

sorting communications received by the communication client in an order based on the social network information;

or

adding the social network information to communications received by the communication client.

10. The method of claim 9, the accessing comprising:

accessing, by the user device or by the device of the non-social network, the social network based on credentials associated with a user of the communication client.

11. The method of claim 10, where the social network information includes a social graph associated with the user, and the sorting comprising:

sorting the communications received by the communication client in an order corresponding to the user'"'"'s social graph.

12. The method of claim 9, where the social network information includes a hyperlink to the social network that contains social network information associated with a sender of the received communication, and the adding comprising:

appending the hyperlink to the communications received by the communication client.

13. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to;

receive or transmit a communication from or to one or more other users associated with a non-social network;

select a social network to which a user of the device belongs;

retrieve social network information associated with the one or more other users based on session information associated with the communication;

provide a non-social network service to the user based on the social network information.

14. The device of claim 13, where the communication includes a telephone call or a video call, and the non-social network service includes displaying the social network information to the user during a call set-up of the telephone call or during the telephone call.

15. The device of claim 13, where the social network information includes at least one of a social network profile, a social network activity, or a social network connection, associated with the one or more other users.

16. The device of claim 13, where the communication includes a telephone call or a video call, and the non-social network service includes screening the communication, when the communication is received by the device, based on the social network information, and the device is configured to:

provide a cue to the user, in correspondence to the social network information, that permits the user to identify one of the one or more other users.

17. The device of claim 13, where the device includes a telephone having a display.

18. The device of claim 13, where the processor executes the instructions in the memory to:

access the social network based on credentials of the user; and

search the social network for the social network information associated with the one or more other users based on a type of the non-social network service being provided to the user.

19. The device of claim 18, where the processor executes the instructions in the memory to:

search resources, other than the social network, to retrieve information related to the one or more other users.

20. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to;

receive a user input to execute a communication client for receiving a communication associated with a non-social network, the communication originating from an originating party;

select a social network to which a user of the device belongs;

retrieve social network information from the social network, where the social network information relates to the user and the originating party; and

perform at least one of;

sort communications received by the communication client in an order based on the social network information that pertains to the originating party of the communication, or

add the social network information to communications received by the communication client.

21. The device of claim 20, where the social network information includes a social graph associated with the user, the social graph includes one or more relational links that correspond to one or more measures of importance of the originating party to the user, and the processor to execute the instructions in the memory to:

sort the communications received by the communication client in an order corresponding to the user'"'"'s social graph.

22. The device of claim 20, where the social network information includes at least one of:

a hyperlink to the social network that, when executed, provides at least one of a social network profile, a social network activity, or a social graph pertaining to the originating party of the communication, or

an indication of a measure of importance of the originating party to the user, where the indication is based on a social graph associated with the user, and the processor to execute the instructions in the memory to;

append at least one of the hyperlink or the indication to the communications received by the communication client.

23. A computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the computer-readable medium storing instructions for:

transmitting or receiving a communication associated with a non-social network service, between a user and another user;

selecting a social network based on the communication received or transmitted;

accessing the social network;

searching the social network for social network information related to the other user;

retrieving the social network information; and

displaying the social network information during a setting up of the communication or during the communication.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, where the communication includes a telephone call.

25. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, the computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions for:

providing a cue to the user, in correspondence to the social network information, which permits the user to identify the other user, when the communication is received.