Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Contact importer
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Application No.: US14054210Application Date: 2013-10-15
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Publication No.: US10977677B2Publication Date: 2021-04-13
- Inventor: Silvanus Lee , Franklin Ta
- Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for importing contacts. A contact importer leverages the various contacts associated with a user of a content management service to find potential new users and/or customers. A contact importer may run on one or more devices of a user associated with an account on a content management system, and import various contacts of that user to a contact list. The list may be culled to weed out non-human contacts, and processed so as to assign an affinity score to each contact, expressing a degree of affinity to the user. Incentives may be offered to the user for either sending or approving an invitation to a contact to register with the content management system, paid upon the invitee successfully registering. Different incentives may be offered for an accepted invitation from various contacts or classes thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150019311A1 CONTACT IMPORTER Public/Granted day:2015-01-15
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