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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2018
Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);
Jeffrey Bonforte, San Francisco, CA (US);
VERIZON MEDIA INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods to present information to a user regarding favorite contacts of the user. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons referenced in communications received by a user of a computing device; selecting, using at least one processor, a set of contacts from the plurality of person profiles based on a relevancy ranking, wherein the set of contacts is selected for display to the user on the computing device; and organizing, using the at least one processor, the set of contacts into at least two time groups, each time group associated with a different time period, wherein contacts will be displayed to the user within each time group based on a relevancy ranking for each contact within the time group.