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US 9,854,089 B1Granted
Managing and enabling interaction with communication information
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorDavid P. Conway
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Abstract
A communications device receives a trigger event and, in response to the trigger event, retrieves identification information and identifies a correspondent entity associated with the trigger event based on the identification information. Communication information relating to one or more communications events associated with the correspondent entity is then retrieved, organized, and displayed in one or more views on the communications device.
Claims20
A method for displaying communication information on a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the mobile communications device that is associated with a first user, an incoming telephone call;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, a telephone number or other unique identifier that is associated with another communications device from which the incoming telephone call originated;
- identifying, by the mobile communications device, a second user who is associated with the incoming telephone call based on the telephone number or other unique identifier;
- selecting, by the mobile communications device, particular search criteria designated for the second user from among a plurality of search criteria;
- searching, by the mobile communications device, one or more local or remote data sources for communications events that satisfy the particular search criteria, the communications events taking place over a plurality of communication channels and including (i) one or more first communications events between the first user and the second user and (ii) one or more second communications events originating with the second user without being specifically directed to the first user, where the plurality of communication channels include at least, two or more of:
- an email communication channel, a telephone communication channel, a text message communication channel, and a social network communication channel;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, information for the communications events from the one or more local or remote data sources based on the search;
- receiving, from the first user of the mobile communications device, organizational criteria that designates a subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- organizing the information according to the organizational criteria by selecting a subset of the information that corresponds to communication over the subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- and
- displaying, by the mobile communications device, the subset of the information for the communications events in one or more views in association with the incoming telephone call, wherein at least a portion of the information associated with the second user is excluded from being displayed based on the organizational criteria.
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A system for displaying communication information on a mobile communications device, the system comprising:
- one or more processing devices;
- and
- non-transitory computer-readable memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at the mobile communications device that is associated with a first user, an incoming telephone call;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, a telephone number or other unique identifier that is associated with another communications device from which the incoming telephone call originated;
- identifying, by the mobile communications device, a second user who is associated with the incoming telephone call based on the telephone number or other unique identifier;
- selecting, by the mobile communications device, particular search criteria designated for the second user from among a plurality of search criteria;
- searching, by the mobile communications device, one or more local or remote data sources for communications events that satisfy the particular search criteria, the communications events taking place over a plurality of communication channels and including (i) one or more first communications events between the first user and the second user and (ii) one or more second communications events originating with the second user without being specifically directed to the first user, where the plurality of communication channels include at least, two or more of:
- an email communication channel, a telephone communication channel, a text message communication channel, and a social network communication channel;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, information for the communications events from the one or more local or remote data sources based on the search;
- receiving, from the first user of the mobile communications device, organizational criteria that designates a subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- organizing the information according to the organizational criteria by selecting a subset of the information that corresponds to communication over the subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- and
- displaying, by the mobile communications device, the subset of the information for the communications events in one or more views in association with the incoming telephone call, wherein at least a portion of the information associated with the second user is excluded from being displayed based on the organizational criteria.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at the mobile communications device that is associated with a first user, an incoming telephone call;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, a telephone number or other unique identifier that is associated with another communications device from which the incoming telephone call originated;
- identifying, by the mobile communications device, a second user who is associated with the incoming telephone call based on the telephone number or other unique identifier;
- selecting, by the mobile communications device, particular search criteria designated for the second user from among a plurality of search criteria;
- searching, by the mobile communications device, one or more local or remote data sources for communications events that satisfy the particular search criteria, the communications events taking place over a plurality of communication channels and including (i) one or more first communications events between the first user and the second user and (ii) one or more second communications events originating with the second user without being specifically directed to the first user, where the plurality of communication channels include at least, two or more of:
- an email communication channel, a telephone communication channel, a text message communication channel, and a social network communication channel;
- retrieving, by the mobile communications device, information for the communications events from the one or more local or remote data sources based on the search;
- receiving, from the first user of the mobile communications device, organizational criteria that designates a subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- organizing the information according to the organizational criteria by selecting a subset of the information that corresponds to communication over the subset of the plurality of communication channels;
- and
- displaying, by the mobile communications device, the subset of the information for the communications events in one or more views in association with the incoming telephone call, wherein at least a portion of the information associated with the second user is excluded from being displayed based on the organizational criteria.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.