US Patent 8744995 Alias disambiguation

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguation of aliases. A method includes selecting a particular alias, selecting one or more past communications in which the particular alias is used, identifying an item of recipient contact information associated with the selected past communication, identifying a contact record associated with the recipient contact information, and for each contact record, generating or updating a score for the alias, and storing the score in association with the contact record.