Ranking communications events
AssigneeVodafone Group PLC
InventorsPhillip Carter, Peter Stephen May, Torsten Kraff
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Abstract
To ensure that contacts (and other information) are presented to the user of a communications terminal in a manner that approximates the perceived relative importance a human user might assign, there is described a method for ranking contacts relative to one another on the basis of a ranking value that has been generated from timeline activities (such as tweets, blog posts, RSS feed, emails/SMS etc.), and/or status information (presence, location etc. of the contact) and/or trends in such activities/status values. This ranking method may be supplemental to more conventional rankings such as alphabetic ordering of contacts or ordering by edit date.
Claims14
A method for generating ranking values for a plurality of contacts, the method comprising:
- providing at least one proximity metric for each of the contacts, each proximity metric including data corresponding to one or more communication events associated with a respective contact;
- generating a ranking value for each of said contacts as a function of the or each proximity metric;
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- ranking the contacts relative to one another on the basis of said ranking value.
A system for generating ranking values for a plurality of contacts, the system comprising:
- at least one proximity metric source, which transmits proximity metric data for each of the contacts, each proximity metric including data corresponding to one or more communication events associated with a respective contact;
- processing means for receiving the or each proximity metric and generating a ranking value for each of said contacts as a function of the or each proximity metric, whereby the contacts may be ranked relative to one another on the basis of said ranking value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.