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Patent: US8792874B2
Filed: 2009-05-11
Issued: 2014-07-29
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Silent Communication Ltd     (Current Assignee) Silent Communication LLC
Inventor(s): Max Eitan Bluvband, Shahar Hajdu

Title: Systems, methods, circuits and associated software for augmenting contact details stored on a communication device with data relating to the contact contained on social networking sites

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and applications for providing messaging services which may provide for download, synchronization, voicemail-message to text-message translation, direct access and handling of selected voicemail messages through a user's user interface. Further disclosed are systems, methods, circuits and associated software for retrieving data associated with contacts stored on a communication device from social networking sites and integrating the retrieved data into the operation of the communication device.

The First Claim: 1. A mobile phone comprising: a local memory adapted to store contacts, wherein a contact includes a phone number and an identity indicator associated with the phone number; a synchronization engine adapted to: (a) correlate a first profile contained on a first social networking site with a first contact stored in said local memory; (b) retrieve from the first social networking site data contained in the first profile; and (c) associate the retrieved data with the first contact; and a presentation and operation module adapted to cause the control circuitry of said mobile phone to display, in association with the first contact, the retrieved data, upon a graphic user interface of said mobile phone.


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Reference Claim Element / Subject Matter Feature Meaning Claim Construction & Interpretation
[1] 1 .

A mobile phone comprising (having control circuitry comprising, comprising control circuitry and, for social networking comprising, control system that includes, that includes control circuitry and, adapted to store contacts and comprising, adapted to communicate with other devices comprising) : a local memory [1]
memory [1] [Meaning 1] storage
[Meaning 2] database
[Meaning 3] data memory
[Meaning 4] memory module
[Meaning 5] electronic memory
[Meaning 6] contact memory
[Meaning 7] storage device
[Meaning 8] memory that is
[Meaning 9] and persistent memory
[Meaning 10] data storage memory
[Meaning 11] storage that is
[Meaning 12] contact and identity memory
[Meaning 13] memory containing data and
[Meaning 14] or remote memory device
[Interpretation 1] database adapted to store profile data contained on social networking sites and identity indicators associated with the social networking sites in association therewith an external database
[Interpretation 2] processor adapted to control the operation of said mobile phone and adapted to communicate with at least one social networking site server and having local memory
[Interpretation 3] memory adapted to store data associated with the mobile phone and to store data associated with other mobile phones in the vicinity thereof an external memory
[Interpretation 4] database adapted to store profiles contained on one or more social networking sites of the internet and an external database
[Interpretation 5] processor adapted to control the operation of said mobile phone and adapted to execute software instructions in local memory and
[2] adapted (of said mobile phone, adapted to be used, having an area adapted, that is specially adapted, configured to be used, comprising contact data and adapted, including contact data storage adapted) to store contacts [2] contacts [2] [Meaning 1] contact
[Meaning 2] data
[Meaning 3] communications
[Meaning 4] records
[Meaning 5] multiple contacts
[Meaning 6] plural contacts
[Meaning 7] contact information
[Meaning 8] contacts therein
[Meaning 9] data and contacts
[Meaning 10] contacts and profiles
[Meaning 11] one or more contacts
[Meaning 12] data associated with contacts
[Meaning 13] contacts of the phone
[Meaning 14] contacts of said mobile phone
[Interpretation 1] contact information associated with contacts on the mobile phone and control circuitry adapted to cause the mobile phone to communicate with one or more other devices
[Interpretation 2] contacts associated with the mobile phone upon receipt of an activation signal from the control circuitry of said mobile phone
[3] , wherein a contact [3] contact [3] [Meaning 1] contract
[Meaning 2] record
[Meaning 3] communication
[Meaning 4] stored contact
[Meaning 5] respective contact
[Meaning 6] given contact
[Meaning 7] contact record
[Meaning 8] plurality of contacts
[Meaning 9] contact at least
[Meaning 10] said contact further
[Meaning 11] name of each contact
[Meaning 12] contact is data that
[Meaning 13] contact stored in said memory
[Meaning 14] single contact is stored and
[Interpretation 1] contact is associated with an identity indicator and includes at least one profile contained on at least one social networking site and wherein the identity indicator
[Interpretation 2] plurality of contacts are associated with different identities indicators and wherein at least one contact is associated with an identity indicator and wherein each stored contact
[Interpretation 3] first contact is associated with at least one of the plurality of social networking sites and wherein the first contact
[4] includes (is defined as comprising, contains data that includes, comprises at least one, includes at least one, has at least one, is defined by at least, of said contacts is identified by) a phone number [4] phone number [4] [Meaning 1] number
[Meaning 2] phone
[Meaning 3] name
[Meaning 4] telephone
[Meaning 5] code
[Meaning 6] telephone number
[Meaning 7] mobile number
[Meaning 8] call number
[Meaning 9] contact number
[Meaning 10] unique phone number
[Meaning 11] corresponding phone number
[Meaning 12] phone number identifier
[Meaning 13] plurality of phone numbers
[Meaning 14] previously stored phone number
[5] and an identity indicator [5] identity indicator [5] [Meaning 1] identifier
[Meaning 2] email
[Meaning 3] image
[Meaning 4] address
[Meaning 5] alias
[Meaning 6] email address
[Meaning 7] alphanumeric string
[Meaning 8] access code
[Meaning 9] associated name
[Meaning 10] internet protocol address
[Meaning 11] item of data
[Meaning 12] instant messaging address
[Meaning 13] associated email address
[Meaning 14] email address uniquely
[Interpretation 1] address associated with the phone number and wherein said local memory is adapted to store profiles contained on different social networking sites that include the address
[Interpretation 2] email address associated with the phone number and wherein the phone number is associated with at least one email address
[6] associated (that is uniquely associated, of the person associated, identifying the contact associated, for identifying the contact, associated to and associated, that identifies an individual associated, indicative of an identity in association) with the phone number [4] ; a synchronization engine [6] synchronization engine [6] [Meaning 1] processor
[Meaning 2] module
[Meaning 3] controller
[Meaning 4] server
[Meaning 5] database
[Meaning 6] correlation module
[Meaning 7] search module
[Meaning 8] communication module
[Meaning 9] profile module
[Meaning 10] data module
[Meaning 11] data retrieval module
[Meaning 12] social networking module
[Meaning 13] web crawler module
[Meaning 14] correlation and retrieval module
[Interpretation 1] control circuitry adapted to cause said mobile phone to communicate with at least one social networking site via said local memory and comprising an association module
[Interpretation 2] wireless transceiver adapted to communicate with an external network via the mobile phone and to communicate with the mobile phone control circuitry comprising an association module
[Interpretation 3] controller adapted to cause control circuitry of said mobile phone to execute at least one of an identity correlation module
[Interpretation 4] control circuitry adapted to control the operation of said mobile phone and to communicate with said local memory and further
[Interpretation 5] communication module adapted to communicate with an external server via the internet and control circuitry thereof comprising an association module
[7] adapted to : ( a ) correlate (detect the association of, associate an identifier of, synchronize data contained in, match an identity indicator of, determine that there is associated, synchronize at least one portion of, identify the identity indicator and associate) a first profile [7] profile [7] [Meaning 1] account
[Meaning 2] profiles
[Meaning 3] content
[Meaning 4] page
[Meaning 5] user profile
[Meaning 6] data profile
[Meaning 7] personal profile
[Meaning 8] contact profile
[Meaning 9] profile data
[Meaning 10] set of profiles
[Meaning 11] plurality of profiles
[Meaning 12] group of profiles
[Meaning 13] profile of an entity
[Meaning 14] of at least one profile
[Interpretation 1] contact stored in said local memory with at least one first profile stored on said mobile phone to thereby associate at least one first profile data
[Interpretation 2] account associated with said mobile phone with at least one first profile stored on said local memory to associate the first profile and at least data
[8] contained (associated with an account, that has been created, corresponding to an account, of an individual stored, stored in local memory, of the mobile phone stored, that is stored in memory) on a first social networking site [8] networking site [8] [Meaning 1] network
[Meaning 2] site
[Meaning 3] website
[Meaning 4] media
[Meaning 5] network site
[Meaning 6] sharing site
[Meaning 7] media site
[Meaning 8] networking site associated
[Meaning 9] media networking site
[Meaning 10] networking site to be synchronized
[Meaning 11] network site of the user
[Meaning 12] media site of the internet
[Meaning 13] networking site of said mobile phone
[Interpretation 1] networking site with the local memory in said mobile phone such that the first profile is at least partially associated
[9] with a first contact [3] stored (that has been stored, of the contacts stored, stored at least partially, of said mobile phone stored, in said contacts being stored, stored in an address book, associated with the identity indicator stored) in said local memory [1] ; ( b ) retrieve (at least partially retrieve, cause the retrieval of, receive and retrieve data, retrieve by the correlation, ret ret the data, store in said local memory, receive by said mobile phone) from the first social networking site data [9] networking site data [9] [Meaning 1] data
[Meaning 2] information
[Meaning 3] media
[Meaning 4] content
[Meaning 5] networking
[Meaning 6] network data
[Meaning 7] site data
[Meaning 8] media data
[Meaning 9] sharing site data
[Meaning 10] networking site data related to information
[Meaning 11] networking site data associated with the identity indicator
[10] contained in the first profile [7] ; and ( c ) associate (cause the association of, synchronize in real time, correlate the content of, associate in real time, store in association with, associate at least some of, store in said local memory) the retrieved (location of the retrieved, profile containing the retrieved, identity indicator and retrieved, retrieved social networking site, first profile and retrieved, phone number and the retrieved, profile and the corresponding retrieved) data with the first contact [3] ; and a presentation [10] presentation [10] [Meaning 1] display
[Meaning 2] control
[Meaning 3] communication
[Meaning 4] configuration
[Meaning 5] user interface
[Meaning 6] data display
[Meaning 7] display control
[Meaning 8] graphical display
[Meaning 9] screen generation
[Meaning 10] mobile phone control
[Meaning 11] user interface generation
[Meaning 12] control circuitry display
[Meaning 13] mobile phone data display
[Meaning 14] user interface display control
[Interpretation 1] synchronization module adapted to cause control circuitry of said mobile phone to synchronize the first profile with the first contact stored in said local memory and
[Interpretation 2] control circuitry adapted to control the operation of said mobile phone and to communicate with said synchronization engine and including
[11] and operation module [11] operation module [11] [Meaning 1] engine
[Meaning 2] controller
[Meaning 3] module
[Meaning 4] processor
[Meaning 5] control engine
[Meaning 6] management engine
[Meaning 7] communication engine
[Meaning 8] storage engine
[Meaning 9] user interface engine
[Meaning 10] control circuitry engine
[Meaning 11] display engine being
[Meaning 12] social networking engine module
[Meaning 13] control engine comprising program code
[Meaning 14] control module comprising an application program
[Interpretation 1] display module adapted to cause control circuitry of said mobile phone to display the retrieved data in association with the first contact upon said mobile phone
[Interpretation 2] data processing module adapted to receive the retrieved data associated with the first contact from said synchronization engine and further
[12] adapted to cause the control circuitry [12] control circuitry [12] [Meaning 1] display
[Meaning 2] processor
[Meaning 3] operation
[Meaning 4] screen
[Meaning 5] local memory
[Meaning 6] display device
[Meaning 7] user interface
[Meaning 8] presentation module
[Meaning 9] graphics processing unit
[Meaning 10] display and operation
[Meaning 11] at least one processor
[Meaning 12] presentation and operation module
[Meaning 13] graphics and display module
[Meaning 14] operation of an output device
[Interpretation 1] first profile to be displayed upon the mobile phone and to cause at least one of one or more processors
[13] of said mobile phone to display (perform operations including presenting, generate an image containing, cause the presentation of, present an indication of, display the first profile and, generate an output that presents, provide an output that displays) , in association [13] association [13] [Meaning 1] conjunction
[Meaning 2] combination
[Meaning 3] accordance
[Meaning 4] visual association
[Meaning 5] close association
[Meaning 6] synchronized fashion
[Meaning 7] association and
[Meaning 8] an area associated
[Meaning 9] accordance with association
[Meaning 10] response to association
[Meaning 11] the manner associated
[Meaning 12] association with association
[Meaning 13] the identity indicator associated
[Meaning 14] addition to the profile associated
[14] with the first contact [3] , the retrieved data , upon a graphic user interface [14] user interface [14] [Meaning 1] display
[Meaning 2] interface
[Meaning 3] screen
[Meaning 4] panel
[Meaning 5] device
[Meaning 6] display screen
[Meaning 7] output device
[Meaning 8] touch screen
[Meaning 9] user interface display
[Meaning 10] or alphanumeric display
[Meaning 11] displayed on the display
[Meaning 12] interface on the display
[Meaning 13] screen of the display
[Meaning 14] display of the user interface
[Interpretation 1] interface of said mobile phone and to cause the control circuitry to operate the retrieved data upon an operation interface
[15] of said mobile phone .