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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:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2005
Applicant:

Otso Ylönen, Salo, FI;

Inventor:

Otso Ylönen, Salo, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/72552 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

This invention describes a method for establishing an ad-hoc group based on addresses of users in a message (e.g., an e-mail) received or sent using a pre-selected communication method (e.g., an e-mail communication) by an electronic device. Any recipient or a sender of the e-mail message can use the e-mail addresses in the message in order to establish a permanent (stored in the device) or a temporary (used immediately in a context of another communication application) ad-hoc group. The user may select all or only a part of the people (other users) into the ad-hoc group. The group-data can have several types of addresses of users such as phone numbers, SIP addresses, wireless village IDs, etc. needed in conjunction with desired applications. Creating the ad-hoc group from the e-mail message can utilize information that already exists in the electronic device and, if needed, acquired additional information from a remote service.


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