Harvesting Addresses

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide an address harvester that harvests addresses from one or more applications executing on a device. Some embodiments use the harvested addresses to facilitate the operation of one or more applications executing on the device. Alternatively, or conjunctively, some embodiments use the harvested addresses to facilitate the operation of one or more applications executing on another device than the one used for harvesting the addresses. In some embodiments, a prediction system uses the harvested addresses to formulate predictions, which it then provides to the same set of applications from which it harvested the addresses in some embodiments.

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CLAIM OF BENEFIT TO PRIOR APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims benefit to U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61 / 832,850 filed Jun. 8, 2013, which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]With advents in technology, traveling from one location to another location has never been easier. A person no longer has to take out a paper map and try to figure out how to get from point A to point B. Instead, the person can just use an electronic map operating on his mobile device to obtain directions between two addresses. Although it is easy to use such maps, people still have to input different addresses. Inputting address might seem easy, but it can be a chore onto itself when one considers the disparate variety of sources from which one has to retrieve an address. As an example, to find an address in an email, a person has to open an email application and sort through the email to find the one with the address. The address is usually in the body of the email. Therefore, mos...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]In this manner, the cloud infrastructure relieves the two devices from having to establish a real time communication session in order to download harvested addresses from one device to the other. In other words, this infrastructure simplifies the process of creating duplicate, distributed data storages (e.g., databases) on different devices to store addresses that are harvested on different devices. This robust distributed data storage synchronization across multiple devices, combined with the harvesting of address data from multiple applications on each device, makes the address harvesting architecture of some embodiments very powerful as it can quickly build a very rich address storage that resides on multiple devices and that can augment the operation of multiple applications on each device.

Problems solved by technology

With advents in technology, traveling from one location to another location has never been easier.

Although it is easy to use such maps, people still have to input different addresses.

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