Contact associative retrieval system and method

Abstract

A contact associative retrieval system is applied to a retrieval server. The retrieval server is connected with a plurality of terminal devices, and the retrieval server comprises a storage device so as to store contact information received from the terminal devices, and the received contact information comprises a plurality of items of associative information and properties. The system is used for synchronizing the contact information in the terminal devices to the retrieval server, an associative structure between contacts is built in the retrieval server, and a retrieval request is received from the terminal devices. According to the retrieval request and the associative structure between the contacts, when a contact in the non-owner property is an owner, the associated contacts are retrieved one or more times, and a retrieval result is returned to the terminal devices. The invention further provides a contact associative retrieval method. According to the system and method, association between the contacts can be built, and target contacts with a certain association degree can be retrieved.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to contact information management technology in the communication field, in particular to a contact association retrieval system and method. Background technique [0002] Contact information is the basic information for establishing communication between people. Different application software can be installed in the electronic device to realize the communication between the user and the contact in various ways, for example, the interaction of calls, short messages, various instant messages (for example, WeChat, Yixin, QQ, etc.). [0003] Although users can directly communicate with the existing contacts in the address book through the address book of various application software, this kind of communication based on the existing contacts is far from satisfying people’s increasingly complex interpersonal communication. demand. When the user needs to know more people, the user can usually take the following methods to search for t...

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[0004] However, although the above method can help users to search for the target group, such a retrieval method is relatively single, and the degree of correlation between the searched person and the user as the searcher is very low, and the searcher and the searched person It may be completely unfamiliar and irrelevant. Such search results cannot solve the problem of mutual trust between the searcher and the searched person, that is, it is impossible to establish an effective trust mechanism, so that effective communication and information sharing cannot be achieved.

[0005] That is to say, the user cannot use the current existing contact retrieval method to find the target contact who has a high degree of correlation with the user, for example, the friend of the user's friend

[0006] It can be seen that the existing contact retrieval methods cannot meet the needs of users to find target contacts with a certain degree of relevance, and cannot optimize the retrieval results according to the degree of affinity between the searcher and the searched person.

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