Contact information merger and duplicate resolution

US8417696B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Amit Gupta · Foster City, US
• Cindy Kwan · Bellevue, US
• Nikhil Bobde · Redmond, US
• Setty Venkateshaiah · Bothell, US
• Ye Tian · Bloomington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 9, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/107
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Merger and duplicate resolution for contact information across platforms is managed employing contact objects and aggregating the contact objects into contact models. Contact data from internal and/or external data stores may be retrieved and contact objects created for each contact from each contact store. A contact model for each contact entity may be created by aggregating contact data from contact objects across the contact stores. The aggregation may include duplicate resolution through weighting of communication system types, ranking of contact information type, and similar approaches. The contact models may be dynamically updated based on changes to the contact objects.