Method and apparatus pertaining to contact information disambiguation
US8805340B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 15, 2012 |
| Grant date | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 15, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M1/27467
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
These teachings provide for receiving from a user (via, for example, a voice-recognition component) a name-based identifier for an entity to be contacted via wireless communications and then using that name-based identifier to access a contacts list to identify a corresponding communications address to use when contacting the entity via the wireless communications. Upon determining that the contacts list includes at least two contacts having the same name-based identifier, these teachings then provide for providing to the user location information as pertains to at least one of the candidate contacts to thereby facilitate disambiguation.
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