Contextual contacts for html5

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016285885-A1
Application number	US-201315038691-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 23, 2013
Priority date	Dec 23, 2013
Publication date	Sep 29, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Various system and methods for selecting a set of contacts for sharing with an application. An apparatus comprises a contact selection module, an application analysis module, and a contact manager module. The contact selection module receives a request at a computing device, from an application, to access contacts stored on the computing device. The application analysis module determines a set of contexts of the application. The contact manager module generate a a set of contacts to share with the application based on the set of contexts, wherein the set of contacts have contexts correlated with the set of contexts of the application; and grants access to the set of contacts to the application.

First claim

1 .- 25 . (canceled)

26 . A machine-readable medium including instructions to select a set of contacts for sharing with an application, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving a request at a computing device, from an application, to access contacts stored on the computing device; determining a context of the application; generating a set of contacts to share with the application based on the determining, wherein the set of contacts have profiles correlated with the context of the application; and granting access to the set of contacts to the application.

27 . The machine-readable medium of claim 26 , wherein determining a context of the application comprises:
performing keyword analysis of the application, wherein the application is a web-based application; and comparing results of the keyword analysis with at least one application with a previously defined context.

28 . The machine-readable medium of claim 26 , wherein determining a context of the application comprises:
selecting at least one context from a group of keywords.

29 . The machine-readable medium of claim 26 , wherein determining the context of the application comprises:
determining a trust level of the application.

30 . The machine-readable medium of claim 29 , wherein the trust level is based on a developer of the application.

31 . The machine-readable medium of claim 26 , further comprising:
presenting the set of contacts to a user of the computing device before granting access to the contacts to the application.

32 . The machine-readable medium of claim 31 , further comprising:
receiving user input indicating a modification to the presented set of contacts by the user.

33 . The machine-readable medium of claim 32 , further comprising:
updating the context of the application based on the user input.

34 . The machine-readable medium of claim 32 , further comprising:
updating a profile of at least one contact of the set of contacts based on the user input.

35 . The machine-readable medium of claim 26 , wherein the application is compliant with an HTML5 standard.

36 . An apparatus to select a set of contacts for sharing with an application, the apparatus comprising:
a contact selection module to receive a request at a computing device, from an application, to access contacts stored on the computing device; an application analysis module to determine a set of contexts of the application; and a contact manager module to:
generate a set of contacts to share with the application based on the set of contexts, wherein the set of contacts have contexts correlated with the set of contexts of the application; and
grant access to the set of contacts to the application.

37 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein to determine the set of contexts of the application, the application analysis module is to:
perform keyword analysis of the application, wherein the application is a web-based application; and compare results of the keyword analysis with an application with a previously defined context.

38 . The apparatus of claim 36 , wherein the request is an HTML5 compliant access request.

39 . The apparatus of claim 36 , wherein a context of the set of contexts is based on a trust level of the application.

41 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the trust level is based on a developer of the application and the developer's previous behavior.

41 . The apparatus of claim 36 , wherein the contact selection module is to present the set of contacts to a user of the computing device before granting access to the set of contacts to the application.

42 . The apparatus of claim 41 , wherein the contact selection module is to receive user input indicating a modification to the presented set of contacts.

43 . The apparatus of claim 42 , wherein the application analysis module is to update a context of the application based on the user input.

44 . The apparatus of claim 36 , wherein the application is compliant with an HTML5 standard.

45 . An method to select a set of contacts for sharing with an application, the method comprising:
receiving a request at a computing device, from an application, to access contacts stored on the computing device; determining a context of the application; generating a set of contacts to share with the application based on the determining, wherein the set of contacts have profiles correlated with the context of the application; and granting access to the set of contacts to the application.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Wouhaybi Rita H
• Li Hong
• Nachman Lama

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F16/23

  Updating · CPC title

• G06F16/2455

  Query execution · CPC title

• G06F16/24575

  using context · CPC title

• H04L63/104 Primary

  Grouping of entities · CPC title