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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:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Juan Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Si Bin Fan, Beijing, CN;

Jie Mao, Beijing, CN;

Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/538 (2019.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/538 (2019.01); G06Q 10/109 (2013.01);
Abstract

Automated personalized identifier switching is provided for switching personalized identifiers for individuals and groups. For this purpose, a method includes determining, by a computer device, a closeness factor of a contact to a user, matching, by the computer, the determined closeness factor of the contact with an identifier having the same closeness factor stored in a database comprised of a plurality of different types of identifiers of the user, and transmitting the matched identifier from the database to the contact to display as an identifier of the user, wherein at least two of the plurality of identifiers in the database have different closeness factors from one another.


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