TIME STAMPING ENTRIES IN AN ADDRESS BOOK OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

摘要

Administering text message communications, including: maintaining, by a service provider, an account age for a plurality of phone numbers; receiving, by the service provider from a mobile communications device, a text message intended to be delivered to a target device associated with a phone number, the text message including metadata describing an address book age of the phone number in an address book of the mobile communications device; determining, by the service provider, whether the address book age of the phone number is older than an account age of the phone number; and responsive to determining that the address book age information of the phone number is older than the account age of the phone number, performing, by the service provider, one or more message administration actions.

主权项

1. A method of time stamping entries in an address book of a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
maintaining, by the mobile communications device for each entry stored in the address book of the mobile communications device, age information for the entry; and initiating, by the mobile communications device, data communications with a device associated with a target entry stored in the address book, wherein the data communications include the age information for the target entry.