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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:
Jan. 17, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Saeed Abbasi Moghaddam, San Jose, CA (US);

Joao Pedro Lacerda, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Joseph E. Meyer, Bethesda, MD (US);

Chiraag Sumanth, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04M 1/72454 (2021.01); H04M 1/72472 (2021.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); H04M 1/72454 (2021.01); H04M 1/72472 (2021.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods can suggest applications and/or recipients for a user of a computing device to perform communication. The suggestions can be provided on a user interface for a user to select. A suggestion engine can use historical user interactions that include a recipient, a communication application used to communicate with the recipient, and contextual data to determine which application and/or recipients to suggest. The user interactions may occur in a variety of ways, e.g., after a content object has been selected within a host application, where a communication application is selected thereafter. Multiple models may be used to provide the suggestions, such as a pattern model or a cluster model that uses recent user interactions. As another example, a heuristics model may also be used.


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