Contact card

US7370290B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Joel Grossman · Petaling Jaya, MY
• Cornelis K. Van Dok · Bellevue, US
• Jonathan David Perlow · San Francisco, US
• Vivien Park · Seattle, US
• Sean Blagsvedt · Bengaluru, IN
• Gilad Israeli · Thornhill, CA
• Michelle McKelvey · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2002
• Grant date: May 6, 2008
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information and contact-centric tasks is displayed when an appropriate request for a contact card associated with a contact is received. The contact card displays contact information corresponding with the contact as well as contact-centric tasks that may be engaged in between the client computing system and the computing system of the contact. The list of contact-centric tasks is organized according to predetermined criteria, such as whether the contact-centric task is associated with an application that has provided contact information to the client computing system and whether the contact is a member of a group utilizing a contact-centric task. The contact card may also include an object comprising a type-in line for launching communication with the contact.