Automatic Contact Creation Based on User Interaction

A method to create a contact on a device, comprising:

• obtaining, by a processor of a device, a record of an interaction between a user of the device and another person;
• extracting, by the processor, an identifier for the other person from the record;
• determining, by the processor, whether the interaction satisfies an interaction rule;
• obtaining, by the processor, information about the other person based on the identifier when it is determined that the interaction satisfies the interaction rule;
• and
• creating, by the processor, a contact for the other person on the device comprising at least some of the obtained information.

A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a processor and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause the processor to:

• obtain, by a device, a record of an interaction between a user of the device and another person;
• extract an identifier of the other person from the record of the interaction;
• determine, based on the identifier, whether existing contact information for the other person is stored on the device;
• apply one or more interaction rules to the interaction;
• obtain contact information for the other person based on the identifier when it is determined that no existing contact information for the other person is stored on the device and that the interaction satisfies at least one interaction rule;
• and
• utilize the obtained contact information for the other person to populate a contacts data store on the device.