Caller ID Context via Social Network Group Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telephone technologies lack the ability to designate a group context between calling and called parties, unlike online social networks, which limits the transmission of specific relationship or joint group identity during calls.
Innovation Solution
A system that links online social network profiles with phone numbers, determining and sending the group association between calling and called parties through a data communication pathway, using CallerID or instant messaging to notify the called party of shared group memberships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If online social network group information is integrated with telephone calling systems, then call context information is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that acts as a bridge between the telephone network and online social network databases. This intermediary receives calling information, queries social network data, and returns group context information without requiring direct integration between telephone systems and social network platforms, thereby reducing device complexity while improving call context information delivery
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into separate functional modules: a telephone network component for call handling, a data communication pathway for information transmission, and an online social network database for storing group information. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently, reducing overall system complexity while enabling comprehensive call context information delivery
2Loss of information
If group association data is transmitted during phone calls, then information completeness is improved, but data transmission time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-querying and caching group association data from online social networks before the actual phone call is established. The intermediary system retrieves and prepares context information in advance, so that when the call is made, the data is already ready for immediate transmission, minimizing additional time delays
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the essential group association data and shared group memberships from the comprehensive social network profiles, transmitting only the relevant context information needed for call identification rather than entire profile datasets. This selective extraction reduces data transmission time while maintaining information completeness
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AI summary
In embodiments of the disclosed technology, a plurality of ratings of websites is received, wherein each rating is associated with a category and a rater and each rater is associated with at least one group. A selection of a category is received from the user, wherein the user is associated with at least one group. One website location (or a plurality of website locations) is provided in the category to the user based on at least one rating of the plurality of ratings provided by at least one of the raters, wherein at least one group associated with the rater and at least one the group associated with the user are the same group.