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Automated caller identifier from contact lists of a user's contacts

  • US 9,544,409 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2016
  • Issued: 01/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method performed on a computing device, the method comprising:

  • effectively expanding, by the computing device, a first contact list that comprises contacts to include at least a portion of at least one of the contacts'"'"' contact lists, where the first contact list is associated with a user of the computing device, where the effectively expanding is based on;

    sending, by the computing device in response to receiving a first message from a first device, a second message to a second device that is associated with the at least one of the contacts, where the second message comprises a request for identity information that identifies a sender of the first message; and

    receiving, by the computing device in response to the sending, the requested identity information.

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