Patents by Inventor Bettina Wilmes

Bettina Wilmes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Ordering data items pertaining to contacts according to relevance of the contacts
    Patent number: 8909650
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for providing an ordered arrangement of data items pertaining to contacts. The order of the arrangement may be determined based on a comparison of ranks of the contacts. An exemplary method comprises registering communications between the user and the contacts. The communications may include active communications originating from the user and terminating at a contact and passive communications originating from a contact and terminating at the user. The exemplary method also comprises determining a rank of a contact based on a comparison of occurrences of the active and the passive communications between the user and the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Jessica Seeger, Matthew Stokes, Bettina Wilmes
  • ORDERING DATA ITEMS PERTAINING TO CONTACTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANCE OF THE CONTACTS
    Publication number: 20110197140
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for providing an ordered arrangement of data items pertaining to contacts of a user. The order of the arrangement may be determined based on a comparison of ranks of the contacts. An exemplary method comprises registering communications in at least two communication formats between the user and the contacts. A weight may be assigned to each communication format. The exemplary method also comprises determining a rank of a contact based on the communications registered for the contact. A communication may be incorporated into the determination of the rank with a weight. Further, the weight may be determined based on the weight assigned to the communication format used for the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Jessica Seeger, Matthew Stokes, Bettina Wilmes
  • ORDERING DATA ITEMS PERTAINING TO CONTACTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANCE OF THE CONTACTS
    Publication number: 20110196876
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for providing an ordered arrangement of data items pertaining to contacts. The order of the arrangement may be determined based on a comparison of ranks of the contacts. An exemplary method comprises registering communications between the user and the contacts. The communications may include active communications originating from the user and terminating at a contact and passive communications originating from a contact and terminating at the user. The exemplary method also comprises determining a rank of a contact based on a comparison of occurrences of the active and the passive communications between the user and the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Jessica Seeger, Matthew Stokes, Bettina Wilmes