Abstract: These teachings provide for receiving from a user (via, for example, a voice-recognition component) a name-based identifier for an entity to be contacted via wireless communications and then using that name-based identifier to access a contacts list to identify a corresponding communications address to use when contacting the entity via the wireless communications. Upon determining that the contacts list includes at least two contacts having the same name-based identifier, these teachings then provide for providing to the user location information as pertains to at least one of the candidate contacts to thereby facilitate disambiguation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 15, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2014
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited and QNX Software Systems Limited
Inventors:
Stephen Lau, Jianqiang Shi, Darrin Kenneth John Fry