US 2019/0098111 A1Published application

Identifying and purging unwanted contacts from a contact list based on the construction of a persona profile

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSonal Bhatt, Sonia L. Sequeira, Hemant K. Sivaswamy

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Abstract

Provided are systems, methods, and media for identifying and purging unwanted contacts. An example method includes monitoring electronic group communication that is conducted between two or more people and building a persona profile for a person of the electronic group communication during a first period of time based, at least in part, on extracting during the first period of time, from the monitored electronic group communication, behavior data associated with a first contact number. The method includes detecting, during a second period of time, whether the person associated with the first contact number has changed. The method includes transmitting an alert to at least one person of the two or more people indicating that the person associated with the first contact number has changed.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for identifying and purging unwanted contacts comprising:

monitoring, by a system comprising one or more processors, electronic group communication that is conducted between two or more people, wherein each person of the electronic group communication is associated with a contact number that is stored in a contact list;
building, by the system, a persona profile for a person of the electronic group communication during a first period of time, wherein the person is associated with a first contact number, wherein the persona profile is built based at least in part on extracting, during the first period of time, from a plurality of interactions in the monitored electronic group communication, behavior data that is associated with the first contact number;
detecting, by the system, during a second period of time, whether the person associated with the first contact number has changed by at least detecting, during the second period of time, whether the persona profile for the person has changed;
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after detecting, during the second period of time, that the persona profile for the person has changed, transmitting, by the system, an alert to at least one of the two or more people of the monitored electronic group communication indicating that the person associated with the first contact number has changed.

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A computer program product for identifying and purging unwanted contacts, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a system comprising one or more processors to cause the system to perform a method comprising:

building, by the system, a persona profile for a person of the electronic group communication during a first period of time, wherein the person is associated with a first contact number, wherein the persona profile is built based at least in part on extracting, during the first period of time, from a plurality of interactions in the monitored electronic group communication, behavior data that is associated with the first contact number;
detecting, by the system, during a second period of time, whether the person associated with the first contact number has changed by at least detecting, during the second period of time, whether the persona profile for the person has changed;
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after detecting, during the second period of time, that the persona profile for the person has changed, transmitting, by the system, an alert to at least one of the two or more people of the monitored electronic group communication indicating that the person associated with the first contact number has changed.

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A system for identifying and purging unwanted contacts, the system comprising one or more processors configured to perform a method comprising:

monitoring, by the system, electronic group communication that is conducted between two or more people, wherein each person of the electronic group communication is associated with a contact number that is stored in a contact list;
building, by the system, a persona profile for a person of the electronic group communication during a first period of time, wherein the person is associated with a first contact number, wherein the persona profile is built based at least in part on extracting, during the first period of time, from a plurality of interactions in the monitored electronic group communication, behavior data that is associated with the first contact number;
detecting, by the system, during a second period of time, whether the person associated with the first contact number has changed by at least detecting, during the second period of time, whether the persona profile for the person has changed;
and
after detecting, during the second period of time, that the persona profile for the person has changed, transmitting, by the system, an alert to at least one of the two or more people of the monitored electronic group communication indicating that the person associated with the first contact number has changed.

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