Patent ID: 9432502
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, responsive to an incoming communication to a receiving user, determining identifying information of an initiating user of the incoming communication; by one or more computing devices, accessing, from one or more data stores associated with a social network, social-network information associated with the initiating user based on the identifying information of the initiating user, wherein the social network comprises a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, at least one first node corresponding to the initiating user and at least one second node corresponding to the receiving user; by one or more computing devices, in connection with a notification to the receiving user of the incoming communication and based on a degree of separation in the social graph between the first node corresponding to the initiating user and the second node corresponding to the receiving user, providing for presentation to the receiving user on a user interface the social-network information associated with the initiating user; by one or more computing devices, based on the degree of separation in the social graph between the first node corresponding to the initiating user and the second node corresponding to the receiving user, determining whether to cache on a client device of the receiving user at least a portion of the social-network information associated with the initiating user; and by one or more computing devices, when the at least a portion of the social-network information associated with the initiating user is determined to be cached on a client device of the receiving user, causing the at least a portion of the social-network information associated with the initiating user to be cached on the client device of the receiving user.