US 2014/0280244 A1Published application

Locale-based sorting on mobile devices

AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation

InventorsDavid Schwartz, Patrick Tousignant

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Abstract

Embodiments are directed to implementing locale-based sorting and to creating temporary metadata sorting values. In one scenario, a computer system sends a request for a contact list, where the request includes an indication of the user's locale. The contact list includes contact information for contacts of a specified user. The computer system receives the requested contact list, which includes various portions of appended, locale-specific sorting metadata for at least one of the user's contacts' fields. The computer system then sorts the contacts of the contact list according to the selected sorting criterion using the sorting metadata, where the sorting metadata includes a sorting order specific to the user's locale. After the contacts are sorted, the computer system presents the sorted contacts to the user in a user interface.

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Dependent claims

A computer system comprising the following:

one or more processors;
system memory;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for implementing locale-based sorting, the method comprising the following:
an act of sending a request for a contact list, the request including an indication of the user's locale, the contact list including contact information for one or more contacts of a specified user;
an act of receiving the requested contact list, the received contact list including one or more portions of appended sorting metadata for at least one of the user's contacts' fields, the sorting metadata being specific to the user's locale;
an act of receiving, from the user, a request to sort the contacts of the contact list based on a selected sorting criterion;
an act of sorting the contacts of the contact list according to the selected sorting criterion using the sorting metadata, the sorting metadata including a sorting order specific to the user's locale;
and
an act of presenting the sorted contacts to the user in a user interface.

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A computer system comprising the following:

one or more processors;
system memory;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for implementing locale-based sorting, the method comprising the following:
an act of receiving a request for a contact list from a user;
an act of accessing one or more of the user's contacts in the contact list;
an act of determining the user's current locale;
an act of generating sorting metadata for at least one of the user's contacts based on the determined locale, the sorting metadata including locale-specific metadata for each contact, and for one or more sets of sorting criteria;
and
an act of sending the contact list with the generated sorting metadata to the user, such that the user sorts the contacts of the contact list according to the selected sorting criterion using the sorting metadata.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.