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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rose Yao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brandon Marshall Walkin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/56 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42042 (2013.01); H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04L 51/38 (2013.01); H04W 4/206 (2013.01); H04M 2203/354 (2013.01); H04M 2203/655 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems directed to a social caller ID application that performs a reverse look up on an incoming communication to determine a specific member of a social networking system associated with the incoming communication, and, based on the social relationship between the detected member and the recipient of the communication, display particular information to the recipient. In this manner, a user is provided a caller ID system that leverages information stored remotely on a social network.