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AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsValerie Kucharewski, Michael Traylor, Michael Anthony Buonomo, John Panzer, Jack Mazzeo
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Abstract
Enabling management of contacts includes passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member, bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts, enabling the member to name the set of contacts, and enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts.
Claims20
A method for enabling management of contacts, the method comprising:
- passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member;
- bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts;
- enabling the member to name the set of contacts;
- and
- enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts.
An apparatus comprising a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a machine result in at least the following:
- passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member;
- bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts;
- enabling the member to name the set of contacts;
- and
- enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts.
A system for enabling management of contact comprising:
- means for passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member;
- means for bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts;
- means for enabling the member to name the set of contacts;
- and
- means for enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.