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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2016
Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);
Joshua Robert Russell Jacobson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Garland Thatcher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Tadao Kobashikawa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robin Andrew Radez, Fremont, CA (US);
Frank J. Cort, Dublin, CA (US);
OATH INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A communication is received over a network from a sender. A method includes identifying, by a computing device, one or more candidates for a phone number in the communication, the one or more candidates including a first candidate; determining, by the computing device, whether the first candidate is an IP address; and in response to determining that the first candidate is not an IP address, storing, in a data repository, the first candidate as a first phone number in a profile of the sender.