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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2008
Richard Onyon, San Jose, CA (US);
Tony Pakarinen, Cupertino, CA (US);
William Tani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Herb Jellinek, Aptos, CA (US);
Richard Onyon, San Jose, CA (US);
Tony Pakarinen, Cupertino, CA (US);
William Tani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Herb Jellinek, Aptos, CA (US);
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Abstract
The system and method for providing social context to digital activity combines mobile device contact information with user-provided website information to aid users when browsing the Internet. Users of mobile devices define identifications of themselves for websites, so that when another user in their contact list is browsing the Internet, an indicator is able to indicate that he is a known contact. The determination of whether the person is a known contact based on the identification definitions is able to be implemented either by direct interfacing between the host website and a server which stores the identification definitions, a browser plugin which communicates with the server or an API provided by the server or a mobile device.