Method and system of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity
AssigneeInterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
InventorTim CARR
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Abstract
A method of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a name of the person or the entity in a frame from a screen of a device; determining a presence status for the detected name based on one or more connectivity status for the detected name in one or more communication applications and/or one or more databases, where the one or more communication applications operate on the device from which the frame originates and where the one or more databases are accessible on the device; displaying the presence status on the screen of the device.
Claims21
1-16. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- providing an indication of a person or entity via an output of an electronic device;
- determining status information associated with the person or entity;
- providing the status information via the output of the electronic device;
- and
- performing one or more actions relating to the person or entity,
- wherein:
- the status information comprises an indication of presence of the person or entity;
- and
- the status information is determined based on information associated with the person or entity in one or more applications and/or one or more databases.
An apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- provide an indication of a person or entity via an output;
- determine status information associated with the person or entity;
- provide the status information via the output;
- and
- perform one or more actions relating to the person or entity,
- wherein:
- the status information comprises an indication of presence of the person or entity;
- and
- the status information is determined based on information associated with the person or entity in one or more applications and/or one or more databases.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.