Patent ID: 8775404
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method carried out by a wireless communication device (WCD) that comprises a wireless-communication interface, a processor, and data storage containing program instructions executable by the processor for carrying out the method, which comprises: receiving a first inbound communication that is associated with a first communication application and that comprises a first-communication-application user identifier as an indication of an initiating party of the first inbound communication; responsive to receiving the first inbound communication, checking whether a contacts list for the WCD contains user name data that is associated in the contacts list with the first-communication-application user identifier, and determining that the contacts list does not contain such user name data; responsive to determining that the contacts list does not contain such user name data, querying a network server to request user name data that is associated with the first-communication-application user identifier; receiving from the network server a query reply that contains particular name data that is associated with the first-communication-application user identifier and that also contains one or more additional communication-application user identifiers, each of which is also associated with the particular name data; and after receiving the query reply, updating the contacts list such that the particular name data is then associated in the contacts list with the first-communication-application user identifier and also with at least one of the received additional communication-application user identifiers.