Patent ID: 9578488
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing contact information at a mobile device, comprising: comparing at least one data field included in each of a plurality of contact entries stored at the mobile device with at least one corresponding data field included in each of a first plurality of user profiles associated with a first social network account, the mobile device being associated with the first social network account on the basis of one or more user credentials of a user, and the contact entries being maintained by a software application on the mobile device; comparing at least one data field included in each of the plurality of contact entries at the mobile device with at least one corresponding data field including in each of a second plurality of user profiles associated with a second social network account, the mobile device being associated with the second social network account on the basis of one or more user credentials of the user; based on the comparisons, identifying a correspondence between a given contact entry of the plurality of contact entries and a first user profile of the first plurality of user profiles and identifying a correspondence between the given contact entry and a second user profile of the second plurality of user profiles; and including data from a given data field of at least one of the first user profile and the second user profile in a corresponding given data field of the given contact entry.