Electronic device and method for extracting incoming/outgoing information and managing contacts
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJi-Yeon JUNG
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Abstract
A method and electronic device for extracting incoming/outgoing information and managing contacts are provided. The method includes determining whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list; extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of the communication with the communicating electronic device when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list; and displaying the extracted incoming/outgoing information on a touchscreen of the electronic device.
Claims40
A method in an electronic device, comprising:
- determining whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list;
- extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of a communication with the communicating electronic device when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list;
- and
- displaying the extracted incoming/outgoing information on a screen of the electronic device.
An electronic device comprising:
- a processor unit configured to determine whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list and, when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list, extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of a communication with the communicating electronic device;
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- a touchscreen configured to display the extracted incoming/outgoing information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.