Mobile Contact Notes

• US 20110287810A1
• Filed: 05/20/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Axelrod, Elinor, Zelber, Dror
• Granted Patent: US 8,548,449 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/656 for recording conversations

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing contact information on mobile devices is provided. When a telephone call is initiated or received, a contact record associated with the call is accessed to determine if it includes notes to be displayed during the call. If there are notes to be displayed, they are displayed for the user during the call. Notes may include display tags indicating they should be displayed as well as action tags specifying actions to take for calls with the contact. An option to dismiss the note(s) can be provided, as well as an option to edit the note. When calls complete, the system provides options to the user to create and save a new note for the contact record. In some embodiments, the system provides options for the user to record audio from telephone conversations. The recording is translated to text and optionally stored in a contact record.

Claims

1. A method of displaying contact information for a phone call, comprising:

receiving or initiating at a first mobile device a telephone call with a second device;

accessing a contact record associated with the second device in response to receiving or initiating the telephone call;

determining if the contact record associated with the second device contains a note for display during the telephone call with the second device; and

if the contact record contains the note for display during the telephone call with the second device, displaying the note on the first mobile device during at least a portion of the telephone call.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein:

the note for display during the call is a first note, the first note including an identifier that the first note should be displayed during the telephone call with the second device;

the contact record includes a second note; and

displaying the note on the first mobile device includes determining that the first note includes the identifier such that the first note is displayed on the first mobile device and the second note is not displayed on the first mobile device.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein:

the contact record associated with the second device includes a body field;

the first note and the second note are in the body field.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein:

the identifier is a display tag; and

the second note does not include a display tag.

5. A method according to claim 2, wherein the identifier is an action tag, the method further comprising:

in response to determining that the contact record contains the action tag, providing an option to end the incoming call or outgoing call and to dismiss the first note from the display.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the telephone call is a first telephone call, the method further comprising:

receiving or initiating at the first mobile device a second telephone call with a third device;

determining that the first mobile device does not contain a contact record associated with the third device;

providing an option at the first mobile device to create a new contact record associated with the third device in response to determining that the first mobile device does not contain a contact record associated with the third device;

if a new contact is created, providing an option at the first mobile device to create a new note for the new contact record;

receiving or initiating at the first mobile device a third telephone call with the third device; and

displaying the new note in response to the third telephone call.

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

if the contact record contains the note for display during the call with the second device, displaying an option to edit or save the note when the incoming or outgoing call is completed.

8. A method according to claim 7, further comprising:

displaying an option to add a new note to the contact record when the incoming call or outgoing call is completed; and

displaying an option to select the new note for display during subsequent calls associated with the contact record.

9. A method according to claim 8, further comprising:

adding a tag to the new note in response to receiving a user selection of the option to select the new note for display during subsequent calls.

10. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving or initiating the telephone call, displaying an option to record audio from the telephone call;

recording one or more segments of audio from the telephone call;

translating the one or more segments of audio to text; and

storing the text at the first mobile device as a note in the contact record associated with the second device.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein:

the contact record associated with the second device is a contact record for a first person; and

the contact record includes a telephone number corresponding to a telephone number of the telephone call.

12. A mobile device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a network interface for exchanging information over one or more networks; and

one or more storage devices in communication with the network interface and the one or more processors, the one or more storage devices store processor readable code, the one or more processors execute the processor readable code to receive or initiate a telephone call with a second device through the network interface, the one or more processors provide a user option at the mobile device to record audio from the telephone call and in response to selection of the user option, record one or more segments of audio from the telephone call, the one or more processors receive a translation of the one or more segments of audio to text and store the text in a contact record associated with the second device.

13. A mobile device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors:

add a display tag to the text stored in the contact record associated with the second device; and

store the text with the display tag in a body field of the contact record.

14. A mobile device according to claim 13, wherein:

the one or more processors access the contact record associated with the second device in response to an additional call with the second device and determine whether the contact record contains a note having the display tag, the note including the text of the one or more segments of audio; and

the one or more processors display the note at the first mobile device in response to the display tag.

15. A mobile device according to claim 12, wherein:

the one or more segments of audio include at least two segments of audio;

the one or more processors combine the at least two segments of audio, provide the at least two segments of audio to a third-party service provider using the network interface and receive from the third-party service provider the text of the at least two segments of audio.

16. A mobile device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors translate the at least two segments of audio to text at the mobile device.

17. One or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied on the one or more processor readable storage devices, the processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

receiving or initiating at a first mobile device a telephone call with a second device;

accessing a contact record associated with the second device in response to receiving or initiating the telephone call;

accessing a note in the contact record including a translation of one or more segments of audio from a previous telephone call between the first mobile device and the second device;

determining if the note includes a tag to display the note during a telephone call associated with the contact record; and

if the note includes the tag, displaying the note on the first mobile device during at least a portion of the telephone call with the second device.

18. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 17, wherein the translation of the one or more segments of audio is an edited translation, the method further comprising:

receiving or initiating at the first mobile device the previous call with the second device;

recording the one or more segments of audio;

displaying a translation of the one or more segments of audio in a contact record for the second person at the first mobile device;

receiving one or more edits to the translation;

providing one or more tags for the edited translation indicating that the edited translation should be displayed during subsequent calls associated with the contact record; and

storing the edited translation at the first mobile device.

19. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 17, further comprising:

displaying an option to add a new note to the contact record when the incoming call or outgoing call is completed;

displaying an option to have the new note displayed during subsequent calls associated with the contact record; and

displaying an option to have an action performed during subsequent calls associated with the contact record.

20. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 17, wherein displaying the note on the first mobile device during at least a portion of the telephone call with the second device includes:

providing an option for a user of the first mobile device to dismiss the note during the telephone call.