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Contact discovery service with privacy aspect

A contact and aspect technology, applied in the field of private information data processing, can solve problems such as discomfort and hindrance

Active Publication Date: 2020-12-18
APPLE INC
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Many users are uncomfortable with allowing such unfettered access to their contacts
Accordingly, such users may alternatively choose to deny the application access to information in the address book entirely, which hinders the application's ability to provide said social aspect as part of the application's overall user experience

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[0024] Representative implementations of methods and apparatus according to the present application are described in this section. These examples are provided only to add context and facilitate understanding of the described embodiments. It will therefore be apparent to one skilled in the art that the described embodiments may be practiced without some or all of these specific details. In other instances, well known process steps have not been described in detail in order not to unnecessarily obscure the embodiments. Other applications are possible such that the following examples should not be considered limiting.

[0025] In the following Detailed Description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific embodiments according to which embodiments are described. While these embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the described embodiments, ...

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Abstract

This application relates to a client-server architecture that enables user accounts registered with a service to be discoverable to other users of the service. A discovery protocol includes accessingpersonal information data stored in an address book of a client device, obfuscating the personal information data, transmitting a request to a service to determine if the obfuscated personal information data matches any potential contacts that have registered as discoverable with the service, and comparing information related to the potential contacts with the contacts included in the address bookto determine if the contacts in the address book match any of the potential contacts.

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technical field [0001] The embodiments generally relate to the handling of private message data. More specifically, the present embodiments relate to using private information data read from an address book on a client device to discover contacts associated with a user of a client application while maintaining the confidentiality of the private information data in the address book sex. Background technique [0002] Mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablet computers, typically store an address book that includes information for various contacts known to the user of the mobile device. An address book typically stores a contact's name and at least one of the contact's phone number or email address. Additional information related to a contact, such as a home address or image, may also be stored in the address book. [0003] Many applications want to leverage this personal information data for the social aspects of the application. For example, a gaming application may ...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L29/12H04L9/06H04L9/08H04L9/32H04L29/06
CPCH04L67/02H04L63/0428H04L9/0866H04L9/3239H04L9/3268H04L2209/42H04L2209/46G06Q50/01G06F21/6245H04L61/4594H04L67/51H04L67/10H04L9/3242H04L9/0643H04L9/3263G06F21/602G06F16/27H04L67/01
Inventor T·阿尔西娜J·A·蒂森D·K·海勒J·M·考斯泰罗
Owner APPLE INC