Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Services Corporation

Verizon Services Organization Inc.

Robert Beckwith

Brian Frederick Roberts

Heath Stallings

Donald H Relyea

Michelle Felt

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Kristopher T Frazier

Shadman Zafar

Raul I Aldrey

Marcelo D Lechner

Ruchir Rodrigues

Harpal Singh Bassali

Christina Lynn Fyock

Mansey K Amin

Brent Simon

Rick Utley

Stella Alvo

In an exemplary method, contacts data for a network address book is maintained, data representative of at least a portion of a local address book maintained on an access device is received over a network, and the received local address book data is used to perform at least one connected address book operation. In one example in which the contacts data includes data representative of a network address book listing associated with a user, data representative of a persona associated with the user is maintained, a request to access the network address book listing is received, and at least a subset of the data representative of the network address book listing is identified and provided in response to the request and based at least in part on the persona.

Connected address book systems and methods

A first game server is configured to provide a game to a first category of user device. A second game server is configured to provide the game to a second category of user device. A game manager is configured to receive a request from a user device for the game application and to assign the request to one of the first game server and the second game server according to whether the user device is included in the first category of user device or the second category of user device.

Cross platform gaming

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Robert Beckwith