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Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wenping Lou, Beijing, CN;

Wen Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/16 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/16 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04W 4/001 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Management of unwanted phone calls and/or text messages can be performed by allowing a user to create a personalized list of unwanted calls and/or text messages at the user's device and synchronizing that personalized list between a storage system in the user's device and a remote storage in a network to which the device can be coupled. In one embodiment, the remote storage can be a cloud based backup system for the user's contacts and content and the user can access a full list of the unwanted phone numbers through a web server but the full list is not accessible on the device except through a web browser that retrieves the full list from the web server.


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