Patent ID: 9390455
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-executable method for evaluating contact priority for a user, the method comprising: collecting, by a first computer, statistical information associated with interactions between the user and the user's contacts across multiple communication channels, wherein the statistical information includes the user's communications and a duration of physical proximity detected between the user and a first contact, by mobile computing devices associated with the user and the first contact; computing a first contact priority value for the first contact based at least on the collected statistical information; receiving, by the first computer via a computer network, from a client computer associated with a high-priority second contact of the user, a second contact priority value specifying whether the second contact perceives the first contact as high-priority; computing a cloud transitivity for the first contact based on the second contact priority value, wherein the cloud transitivity for the first contact specifies a number of high-priority contacts who perceive the first contact as high-priority; computing an overall priority for the first contact based at least on the first contact priority value and the cloud transitivity for the first contact; and presenting to the user, by the first computer on a display of the first computer: