AGGREGATED VIEW OF LOCAL AND REMOTE SOCIAL INFORMATION

摘要

Disclosed are a system and method for gathering social information that is of interest to a user (100) of a communications device (102). Information is gathered (200) both from the device (102) itself and remotely (202). The gathered information is then intelligently aggregated (206) and presented (208) to the user (100) in a unified format. In many cases, each piece of social information is associated with at least one virtual identity. Some embodiments rationalize the display of social information by using a contact-identity database (320) that associates a contact person with his multiple virtual identities. In some embodiments, the user (100) can specify how the information is to be displayed and can specify ways to filter the information. For example, the user (100) can specify which contact people are of interest and can filter their social information based on the type of the information and the time at which the information was posted.