Methods and Systems for Contact Management

摘要

A method for contact management comprises retrieving, using a mobile electronic device of a user, contact information from multiple external sources. The method next comprises storing said contact information in a memory location of said mobile electronic device. Next, the method comprises determining with a computer processor whether contact information from a portion of said multiple sources at least partially overlaps with contact information from a remainder of said multiple sources. The method next comprises either merging the contact information to generate a consolidated contact record or splitting the contact information to generate split contact records based on the determining the overlap. And then the method comprises storing said consolidated contact record or split contact records in a memory location of said mobile electronic device.

主权项

1. A method for identifying contextually-relevant contacts based on contextual information related to a user, comprising:
(a) receiving a search query based on input from a user in a user interface of an electronic display of a mobile electronic device of said user; (b) conducting, with the aid of a computer processor, a search of one or more databases or lists of contact information directed to said search query, wherein said one or more databases or lists of contact information comprises (i) one or more contacts of said user and (ii) an identified relationship between said user and said one or more contacts, and wherein said one or more databases or lists of contact information are included in said mobile electronic device; (c) determining said contextual information including a context of said user and a context of at least one of said one or more contacts and said identified relationship; (d) ordering search results received from said search based on said contextual information determined in (c) to provide said contextually relevant contacts; and (e) displaying said search results on said user interface, thereby permitting said user to readily identify said contextually-relevant contacts based on said contextual information.