Method and system for use of call activity to trigger social-network expansion

US8934876B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Gabriel A. Cohen · Alameda, US
• Colin Gibbs · San Francisco, US
• Daniel Lehmann · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 2, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2203/655
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and system for using call activity as a basis to trigger social-network expansion. Upon detecting threshold call activity between a first party and a second party and determining that a social-network group of the first party does not include a social-network connection with the second party, a process is triggered to add to the first party's social-network group a connection with the second party.