Patent ID: 8781453

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing contextual information about telephonic communications, the method comprising: receiving, by the computer, an indication that a caller has initiated a pending telephonic communication to a remote mobile-telecommunications device, wherein said remote mobile-telecommunications device can identify said caller only by a phone number of said caller; obtaining, by the computer, directory data associated with said phone number of said caller, said directory data further identifying said caller by at least a caller name; providing, by the computer, said directory data to said remote mobile-telecommunications device while said pending telephonic communication remains pending; identifying, by the computer, a social-media account associated with at least one of said caller name and said phone number of said caller; obtaining, by the computer, identifying information identifying an individual associated with said social-media account; periodically obtaining, by the computer, recent contextual data associated with said social-media account and/or said identifying information, including determining a contextual-data-fetching schedule based at least in part on a past communications-frequency metric corresponding to said caller and said remote mobile-telecommunications device; and periodically providing, by the computer, said recent contextual data to said remote mobile-telecommunications device to display when a subsequent telephonic communication is initiated by said caller.