Patent ID: 8494135

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for contact management comprising the steps implemented by one or more computers of: maintaining an address book; receiving, from a user, filter settings defining criteria for determining whether to add incoming calls to the address book, the filter settings received from the user specifying one or more telephone numbers, locations, devices, or names for which associated contact-related information is not added to the address book; providing a notification, via a user terminal, of an incoming call initiated by a calling party and directed to a communication device; determining whether the incoming call meets the criteria defined by the filter settings to be added to the address book; and obtaining contact-related information associated with the calling party in response to the received command and adding the obtained contact-related information to the address book, provided the incoming call meets the criteria defined by the filter settings to be added to the address book, wherein the filter settings are received from the user in advance of the incoming call.