US Patent:
20180212922, Jul 26, 2018
Inventors:
- San Francisco CA, US
Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal - San Francisco CA, US
Robert Cheung - San Francisco CA, US
Robert Cobb - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel Cosson - San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Kortina - San Francisco CA, US
Samuel Lessin - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Richter - Atherton CA, US
Andrew Staub - Berkeley CA, US
Assignee:
The Fin Exploration Company - San Francisco CA
International Classification:
H04L 29/12
H04L 12/58
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a user to contact a person of interest; determining that contact information for the person of interest is not available in the user's contact information to which the system has access; determining that the collective address book system has access to contact information for the person of interest; generating proxy contact data for the person of interest; and providing the proxy contact data to the first user.
