Automatic task extraction and calendar entry

US10984387B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Michael Gamon · Seattle, US
• Saliha Azzam · Redmond, US
• Yizheng Cai · Sammamish, US
• Nicholas Caldwell · Bellevue, US
• Ye-Yi Wang · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 20, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/109
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Automatically detected and identified tasks and calendar items from electronic communications may be populated into one or more tasks applications and calendaring applications. Text content retrieved from one or more electronic communications may be extracted and parsed for determining whether keywords or terms contained in the parsed text may lead to a classification of the text content or part of the text content as a task. Identified tasks may be automatically populated into a tasks application. Similarly, text content from such sources may be parsed for keywords and terms that may be identified as indicating calendar items, for example, meeting requests. Identified calendar items may be automatically populated into a calendar application as a calendar entry.