Techniques for phone number and data management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9877185-B2
Application number	US-201414286873-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 13, 2013
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

Techniques for phone number and data management are described. A storage module may be configured to store contact information for a plurality of users, which may be members of a social network. A server device may be configured to receive a SIM change event from a mobile device associated with a first user of the plurality of users. The SIM change event may include updated contact information for the first user. The server may further be configured to identify one or more users from the plurality of users associated with the first user, and provide the updated contact information to one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a storage device configured to store contact information for a plurality of users; and
a server device configured to:
receive a SIM change event from a mobile device associated with a first user of the plurality of users, the SIM change event including updated contact information for the first user;
identify one or more users from the plurality of users associated with the first user; and
provide the updated contact information to one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users, wherein the updated contact information is stored by an online service and updated contact information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using a pointer to the stored updated contact information.

2. The system of claim 1 , the plurality of users are members of a social network and the identified one or more users are members of a social graph including the first user.

3. The system of claim 2 , the one or more identified users have been selected by the first user to receive the updated contact information.

4. The system of claim 1 , the SIM change event indicates that a new SIM has been inserted in the mobile device or a new virtual-SIM has been assigned to the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1 , the updated contacted information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using push operations.

6. The system of claim 1 , the updated contacted information is provided to each of the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users in response to each of the one or more identified users initiating a communication with the first user.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server device periodically pulls the updated contact information from the mobile device associated with the first user.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
storing, by a storage device, contact information for a plurality of users;
receiving, by a server, a SIM change event from a mobile device associated with a first user of the plurality of users, the SIM change event including updated contact information for the first user;
identifying, by the server, one or more users from the plurality of users associated with the first user; and
providing, by the server, the updated contact information to one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users, wherein the updated contact information is stored by an online service and updated contact information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using a pointer to the stored updated contact information.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , the plurality of users are members of a social network and the identified one or more users are members of a social graph including the first user.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the one or more identified users have been selected by the first user to receive the updated contact information.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , the SIM change event indicates that a new SIM has been inserted in the mobile device or a new virtual-SIM has been assigned to the mobile device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , the updated contacted information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using push operations.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , the updated contacted information is provided to each of the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users in response to each of the one or more identified users initiating a communication with the first user.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the server device periodically pulls the updated contact information from the mobile device associated with the first user.

15. An article comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a system to:
store, by a storage device, contact information for a plurality of users;
receive, by a server, a SIM change event from a mobile device associated with a first user of the plurality of users, the SIM change event including updated contact information for the first user;
identify, by the server, one or more users from the plurality of users associated with the first user; and
provide, by the server, the updated contact information to one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users, wherein the updated contact information is stored by an online service and updated contact information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using a pointer to the stored updated contact information.

16. The article of claim 15 , the plurality of users are members of a social network and the identified one or more users are members of a social graph including the first user.

17. The article of claim 16 , the one or more identified users have been selected by the first user to receive the updated contact information.

18. The article of claim 15 , the SIM change event indicates that a new SIM has been inserted in the mobile device or a new virtual-SIM has been assigned to the mobile device.

19. The article of claim 15 , the updated contacted information is provided to the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users using push operations.

20. The article of claim 15 , the updated contacted information is provided to each of the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more identified users in response to each of the one or more identified users initiating a communication with the first user.

21. The article of claim 15 , wherein the server device periodically pulls the updated contact information from the mobile device associated with the first user.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Maguire Yael
• Kowalewski Damian
• Coglitore Giovanni
• Bernstein Aaron
• Akhi Fraidun

Classifications

• H04M1/72522

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/205 Primary

  Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier · CPC title

• H04L67/1095

  Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes · CPC title

• H04L63/0853 Primary

  using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234) · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title