"Technique to Facilitate Intelligent Functionality Tailored to Each User"

Field of "invention": Humanity.

My invention is a novel technique to intelligently tailor functionality to each user using the apparatus/device use statistics. One example application is contact lists stored on a computer or other device. Traditionally contact lists are stored on a device and recalled when required by the implementation. My novel development of this technique demonstrates inventive step by tailoring the contact list to the user's habits.

Each time a contact is used, that use is counted and stored to calculate importance weights for each contact member. If the user has 5 contacts called "Richard", each with different surnames, the user only needs to then type "R" to be presented with a list ordered with the "Richard" they most frequently call at the top. The same approach applies to subsequent user input, the list being narrowed down and ordered by previous usage statistics. That contact would conventionally have been at the bottom of the list constructed from a tree representation of contact names had his name been "Richard Vergal", because conventional approaches list alphabetically.

So there you have it, someone might have already come up with a similar idea, but feel free to use my idea; enjoy ;)