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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-Do, KR;

Inventors:

Xuan Bao, San Jose, CA (US);

Jun Yang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Zhixian Yan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Lu Luo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Evan Welbourne, Seattle, WA (US);

Yifei Jiang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 17/11 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Social grouping using a device may include determining, by the device, a set of attributes associated with interactions between a user and a set of contacts, wherein the set of attributes associated with the interactions is related to the device. The contacts may be organized into groups. The groups may be hierarchically ordered with at least one of the groups being a subgroup of another one of the groups.


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