Contact entry population from call entity information

摘要

Populating a contact entry with selected entity information based on an identifier associated with a call (e.g., a telephone call, VoIP call, text message, electronic mail message, or any other communication). As the call is detected, entity information for the identifier (e.g., a telephone number, VoIP address, MAC address, etc.) is generated. The entity information is filtered based on a category of the entity information, user preferences, location of a computing device (e.g., mobile telephone) of the user, or other filtering criteria. The filtered entity information is associated with the contact entry for the identifier, thereby enhancing the contact entry while reducing typing on the computing device. In some embodiments, additional information such as advertisements for a competitor of the entity are provided to the user.

主权项

1. A system for creating or updating contact information based on telephone calls, said system comprising:
a memory area for storing a contact entry for a telephone number; and a processor associated with a mobile computing device, said processor programmed to:
detect the telephone number associated with a telephone call;responsive to the detection of the telephone number associated with the telephone call, receive entity information from a data source, said entity information including advertisement content relating to an entity associated with the detected telephone number associated with the telephone call;provide the received entity information to the mobile computing device; andupdate the contact entry stored in the memory area with the received entity information.