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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2005
Timothy A. Timmins, Beaverton, OR (US);
John S. Miller, Canby, OR (US);
Christopher A. Huey, Banks, OR (US);
Philip A. Ljubicich, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Karen L. Johnson, Portland, OR (US);
Timothy A. Timmins, Beaverton, OR (US);
John S. Miller, Canby, OR (US);
Christopher A. Huey, Banks, OR (US);
Philip A. Ljubicich, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Karen L. Johnson, Portland, OR (US);
Other;
Abstract
A service providing information assistance may maintain for a subscriber contacts folders comprising private directories of the subscriber, and a personal profile containing the subscriber's preferences. When a user calls the service to attempt to communicate with a desired party through the service, the service can ascertain whether the desired party has a personal profile and/or a contacts folder associated with him/her. If so, the caller is allowed to communicate with the desired party on the terms and conditions defined by the desired party in his/her personal profile and/or contacts folder. For instance, the desired party may have defined therein who should be allowed to contact him/her, when he/she should be contacted, by what communication means, and whether the caller can be told any of the desired party's communication addresses (e.g., telephone number, email address, etc.).