US 8,621,382 B1Granted

Adding information to a contact record

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsDavid S. Young, Michael H. Leggett, Braden F. Kowitz, Benjamin Grol

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Abstract

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A display for a particular contact record is presented. The display includes a name for a particular contact and a generic input area. Each of a plurality of contact records identifies a name for a contact, and each of the plurality of contact records is configured to store multiple entries that each include a value and a field type from a plurality of field types. User input of information using the generic input area is received. A field type from the plurality of field types is determined based on matching semantics of the received user input. The determining occurs without receiving user input specifically identifying the matching field type. The determined field type and the received user input is stored as an entry for the particular contact record.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for assigning a field type to information added to a contact record, the method comprising:

presenting, on a graphical user interface of a computing device, a display for a particular contact record, wherein the display includes (i) a name for a particular contact that is represented by the particular contact record and (ii) a generic input area;
wherein the particular contact record is from a plurality of contact records that are stored in computer memory, each of the plurality of contact records identifies a name for a contact that is represented by the contact record, and each of the plurality of contact records is configured to store multiple entries that each include a value and a field type from a plurality of field types;
receiving user input of information using the generic input area;
determining a field type from the plurality of field types based on matching semantics of the received user input, wherein the determining occurs without receiving user input specifically identifying the matching field type;
presenting, in the display for the particular contact record and in response to determining the field type, an interface element of selectable field types that displays the determined field type as a selected field type;
storing, as an entry for the particular contact record, the determined field type and the received user input as the value for the determined field type;
and
after presenting the interface element of selectable field types that displays the determined field type as a selected field type:
receiving second user input of second information using the generic input area;
determining a second field type from the plurality of field types based on matching semantics of the received second user input, wherein the determining of the second field type occurs without receiving user input specifically identifying the second field type;
presenting, in the display for the particular contact record and in response to determining the second field type, a second interface element of selectable field types that displays the determined second field type as the selected field type for the second interface element;
and
storing, as a second entry for the particular contact record, the determined second field type and the received second user input as the value for the determined second field type, the determined second field type being different than the determined field type.

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A system for assigning a field type to information added to a contact record, the system comprising:

computer memory storing a plurality of contact records that each (a) identify a name for a contact that is represented by the contact record, and (b) is configured to store multiple contact record entries that each include a value and a field type from a plurality of field types;
a display device of a computing device to present to a user a display for a particular contact record from the stored plurality of contact records, wherein the display includes (i) a name for a particular contact that is represented by the particular contact record, (ii) a generic input area, and (iii) a contact record entry that shows an interface element of selectable field types and a value for a presently selected field type;
a user input interface of the computing device that is configured to receive first user input of first information in cooperation with the generic input area and, after receipt of the first user input of first information, second user input of second information in cooperation with the generic input area;
means for determining a first field type based on matching a semantics of the received first user input, without receiving user input that specifically identifies the matching first field type, and for determining a second field type based on matching a semantics of the received second user input without receiving user input that specifically identifies the matching second field type;
and
a contact record updating module to store:
(a) in a first entry of the particular contact record, the determined first field type and the received first user input of first information as the value for the determined first field type, and
(b) in a second entry of the particular contact record, the determined second field type and the received second user input of second information as the value for the determined second field type, wherein the second field type is different than the first field type.

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A system for assigning a field type to information added to a contact record, the system comprising:

computer memory to store a plurality of contact records for a user, each of the contact records identifying a name for a contact that is represented by the contact record, and each of the contact records being configured to store multiple contact record entries that each include a value and a field type from a plurality of field types;
a display device of a computing device to present to a user a display for a particular contact record from the stored plurality of contact records, wherein the display includes (i) a name for a particular contact that is represented by the particular contact record and (ii) a generic input area;
a user input interface of the computing device to receive first user input of first information in cooperation with the generic input area and, after receipt of the first user input of the first information, second user input of second information in cooperation with the generic input area;
a server system to receive the first user input of the first information from the computing device and the second user input of the second information from the computing device, and to determine a first field type based on matching semantics of the received first user input of the first information, without receiving user input that identifies the determined first field type, and to determine a second field type based on matching semantics of the received second user input of the second information without receiving user input that identifies the determined second field type;
and
a contact record updating module to store:
(a) in a first entry of the particular contact record, the determined first field type and the received first user input of the first information as the value for the determined first field type, and
(b) in a second entry of the particular contact record, the determined second field type and the received second user input of the second information as the value for the determined second field type, wherein the second field type is different than the first field type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/691,142Filed 21 Jan 2010
Granted: 31 Dec 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06Q 10/107
Office automation; Time management: computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
H04L 61/4594
Network directories; Name-to-address mapping: address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents
G06F
Computing and data processing