Patent ID: 9614950
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method for determining a prioritized list of telephone numbers for a specific user, the method comprising: in response to identifying the specific user in a vehicle, automatically launching a call log application in the vehicle; upon launching the call log application, automatically downloading a historical calling profile for the specific user, the historical calling profile including individual vehicle call records; updating the historical calling profile with a vehicle call record corresponding to each instance of an outgoing call placed while the specific user is in the vehicle; dynamically determining a probability of a telephone number being chosen for an outgoing call within respective predetermined time increments while the specific user is in the vehicle or in response to a user request, the probability being dependent upon location data points retrieved from the individual vehicle call records; dynamically generating a list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability; and causing a most recently generated list of telephone numbers sorted by the probability to be displayed on a vehicle display while the specific user is in the vehicle.