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Tiffany Spencer, I couldn’t resist. 🪩🕺🏻🤩OWOW.AI 🤔 This sparked an idea. I’m thinking each week or so I might share my experience with a new AI…
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Very proud of our team for the strong execution and results this quarter: * We exceeded the high end of our revenue and non-GAAP operating profit…
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Excited to announce that Lead made it onto CNBC's #Disruptor50 list! Our goal is to provide flexible and compliant banking infrastructure designed…
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Patents
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Method and system for collecting and presenting historical communication data for a mobile device
Issued 11,190,474
Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include depositing the collected data into a repository of historical communication data and personal data. The method may include presenting one or more items in the repository on a mobile device, in response to user behavior.
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Systems and methods to present voice message information to a user of a computing device
Issued US 10,714,091
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Systems and methods to present voice message information to a user of a computing device
Issued US 10,089,986
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Presenting favorite contacts information to a user of a computing device
Issued US 10,078,819
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Systems and methods to present voice message information to a user of a computing device
Issued US 9,685,158
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System and Methods for Event-Based Profile Building
Issued US 9160690
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System and Methods for Profile Building Using Location Information from a User Device
Issued US 9160689
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Techniques for Generating a Visual Representation of User Activity Associated with an Information Resource
Issued US 9111236
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Systems and Method to Present Voice Message Information to a User of a Computing Device
Issued US 9872257
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Self Populating Address Book
Issued US 8661002
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Presenting Information to a User Based on the Current State of a User Device
Filed US 20110298701
This is an alternate method to the "flicking up" gesture patent. This patent covers an overlay of information or options when a user gets to a specific part of an app. So if you move to Facebook.com and view a profile for John Smith, the service could show you information about the person outside of Facebook as an overlay.
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Presenting a New User Screen in Response to Detection of a User Motion
Filed US 20110291933
The patent covers "flicking up" (gesture based UI or trackball/pad) on a mobile device to invoke an overlay screen. Sort of the opposite of pulling down the notifications screen on the iOS 5.0. We implemented this in our first Xobni for BlackBerry product.
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Systems and Methods for Profile Building
Filed US 20110029620
Purpose of this patent was to prompt a user to request missing contact information during an email (or similar). So if I don't have someone's mobile, the system reminds me when I am emailing them to ask for it. Can be done with user opt-in or automatically appended to an email I send.
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Dynamics Contact Favorites
US 13/528,697
Systems and methods to present information to a user regarding favorite contacts of the user. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons referenced in communications received by a user of a computing device; selecting, using at least one processor, a set of contacts from the plurality of person profiles based on a relevancy ranking, wherein the set of contacts is selected for display to the user on the computing device; and organizing, using the at…
Systems and methods to present information to a user regarding favorite contacts of the user. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons referenced in communications received by a user of a computing device; selecting, using at least one processor, a set of contacts from the plurality of person profiles based on a relevancy ranking, wherein the set of contacts is selected for display to the user on the computing device; and organizing, using the at least one processor, the set of contacts into at least two time groups, each time group associated with a different time period, wherein contacts will be displayed to the user within each time group based on a relevancy ranking for each contact within the time group.
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SUPER-EMOTICONS
US 2009/0019,117
Techniques are described for generating and displaying “super-emoticons”. Super-emoticons are similar to smileys in that they may be generated in response to a participant in a textual conversation entering a specific sequence of textual characters. However, super-emoticons differ from smileys in that super-emoticons are programmed to demonstrate more sophisticated behaviors, including but not limited to: moving out of the text insertion location, interacting with other display…
Techniques are described for generating and displaying “super-emoticons”. Super-emoticons are similar to smileys in that they may be generated in response to a participant in a textual conversation entering a specific sequence of textual characters. However, super-emoticons differ from smileys in that super-emoticons are programmed to demonstrate more sophisticated behaviors, including but not limited to: moving out of the text insertion location, interacting with other display elements, interacting with users, changing appearance based on context, exhibiting randomly selected behaviors, and making use of information from services.
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Search Aided Voice Recognition
US 8,380,512
A method and apparatus for incorporating voice recognition into a search engine is provided. The phonetic voice recognition system lacking grammar and spell checking is used. The output of the phonetic voice recognition system is forwarded to a search engine. The search engine performs disambiguation and relevancy analysis based on past similar queries. Search engine user behavior is recorded to improve the accuracy. Recorded statistics are used to rank results pages.
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TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAYING GRAPHICAL COMMENTS
US 8,219,916
I called this one 'Dust' when I came up with it.
Techniques are provided through which users can leave graphical comments on web pages associated with individual members of a social networking site. Users can do so by painting within a region on the web pages or on the web page itself. Different painting tools, such as spray paint cans and traditional paint brushes may be selected to generate different visual content on the path of paint drawn by the user. Access to paint may be…I called this one 'Dust' when I came up with it.
Techniques are provided through which users can leave graphical comments on web pages associated with individual members of a social networking site. Users can do so by painting within a region on the web pages or on the web page itself. Different painting tools, such as spray paint cans and traditional paint brushes may be selected to generate different visual content on the path of paint drawn by the user. Access to paint may be restricted to members of the social networking site. Users who leave graphical comments may be charged for the graphical comments. Members may erase graphical comments on associated web pages. Graphical comments may also be generated in a chat window visible to all users engaged in a chat session. -
THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION OVERLAY ON SEARCH RESULTS
US 11,950,398
Overlaying third-party information, like ratings, over standard web search results.
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Templates for themed instant messages
US 7,721,217
A method for templates for implementing instant message themes is provided. For example, the user selects between a to-do theme, an invite theme, a postcard theme, a reminder theme, etc. If the user selects the to-do; theme, the to-do template may prompt the user to input a description of the task to be performed and a due date/time. An instant message is sent to a recipient who is to perform the task. The recipient's instant message application displays a to-do in a themed IM window. The…
A method for templates for implementing instant message themes is provided. For example, the user selects between a to-do theme, an invite theme, a postcard theme, a reminder theme, etc. If the user selects the to-do; theme, the to-do template may prompt the user to input a description of the task to be performed and a due date/time. An instant message is sent to a recipient who is to perform the task. The recipient's instant message application displays a to-do in a themed IM window. The themed IM window may have special features that are related to the interactions for the to-do theme. For example, the themed IM window can have a completed indicator for the recipient to send a completion notice to the sender. Alternatively, the themed IM window could have a button to perform the task. In response to performing the task, the to-do theme could automatically send a completion notice.
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Honors & Awards
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36 of Tech's Most Powerful Disruptors
Fortune Magazine
See http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/technology/1207/gallery.brainstorm-tech-conference.fortune/14.html
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40 Under 40: One's to Watch
Fortune Magazine
See http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/companies/1110/gallery.40_under_40_ones_to_watch.fortune/6.html
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