Aggregating and presenting event information

• US 10,331,305 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, Melissa N., Jensen, Tyler N., Callegari, Shawn, Frew, Jared J., Chudzik, Terri L., Gupta, Ashish, Xia, Renle, Brush, Alice Jane, Schrader, Joseph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trapanese, William C
• Application Number:
  US14/078,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20150135088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,051 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure aggregate and present event information relating to a calendar event associated with an application executing on a computing device. In some embodiments, data relating to the calendar event is obtained from a content source that is outside an execution context of the application. The data relating to the calendar event is obtained and/or presented intermittently in a user interface element associated with the application. The content source that is outside the execution context of the application may be within an execution context of one or more other applications, an operating system of the computing device, and/or a web service.

Claims

1. A system for collecting and presenting calendar event information to a user, said system comprising:

a memory area associated with a mobile computing device, said memory area storing at least one calendar application comprising a calendar event, the calendar application having a first portion of the memory area associated therewith for data storage;

a display device for presenting, in a first user interface (UI), the at least one calendar application comprising the calendar event; and

a processor programmed to;

receive a request to place the calendar event in a second UI;

based on the received request, receive, from a second portion of the memory area outside an execution context of the calendar application, data relating to the calendar event; and

present the calendar event and the received data in the second UI, wherein the data relating to the calendar event is presented based on an importance level of the calendar event, and wherein the importance level is determined based on the receiving of the request to place the calendar event in the second UI.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to personalize the second UI based on the received data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the data relating to the calendar event is selected based on an importance level of the calendar event.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data related to the calendar event is from one or more social networks of the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one calendar application further comprises a plurality of calendar events, and wherein the processor is further programmed to:

receive a second request to place an additional calendar event from the plurality of calendar events in the second UI;

based on the second request, receive, from the second portion of the memory area outside an execution context of the calendar application, data relating to the additional calendar event; and

present the data relating to the additional calendar event in the second UI.

6. A method comprising:

displaying, in a first user interface (UI), a calendar application comprising a calendar event;

receiving a request to place the calendar event in a second UI;

based on the received request, obtaining, from at least one memory area outside an execution context of the calendar application, data relating to the calendar event; and

displaying the obtained data and the calendar event in the second UI, wherein the data relating to the calendar event is displayed based on an importance level of the calendar event, and wherein the importance level is determined based on the receiving of the request to place the calendar event in the second UI.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the request to place the calendar event in the second UI comprises receiving the request from a user.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for the obtained data;

storing the generated URIs within the execution context of the calendar application; and

sharing the stored, generated URIs with at least one attendee associated with the calendar event.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein obtaining the data comprises performing, outside the execution context of the application, a text-based search for the data.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the calendar event has a location associated therewith, and wherein obtaining the data comprises performing a search for the data using the location as a search term.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the calendar event has a start time associated therewith, and wherein obtaining the data comprises performing a search for the data based on the start time.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein obtaining the data from the at least one memory area comprises obtaining the data from a memory area on a computing device and from a memory area off the computing device, wherein the obtained data comprises one or more of the following:

text data, image data, video data, and audio data.

13. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving additional data from a user, and storing the additional data within the execution context of the calendar application.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

identifying at least one attendee associated with the calendar event;

obtaining data associated with the attendee; and

updating the second UI with the obtained data associated with the attendee.

15. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storing the obtained data in a data structure associated with the second UI;

transmitting the data structure to a computing device, wherein the computing device updates the data structure with additional data relating to the calendar event;

receiving the updated data structure from the computing device; and

updating the second UI with the received, updated data structure.

16. One or more computer storage devices embodying computer-executable components, said components comprising:

a configuration component comprising instructions, that upon execution causes at least one processor to receive a calendar event associated with an application, the calendar event having a start date associated therewith;

an aggregation component comprising instructions, that upon execution causes the at least one processor to obtain, based on the received calendar event and from a content source outside an execution context of the application, data relating to the received calendar event; and

a user interface (UI) component comprising instructions, that upon execution causes the at least one processor to;

present, in a first user interface (UI), a calendar application comprising a calendar event;

receive a request to place the calendar event in a second UI;

based on the received request, present the calendar event in the second UI and present the data obtained by the aggregation component in the second UI for display to a user, wherein the data relating to the calendar event is presented based on an importance level of the calendar event, and wherein the importance level is determined based on the receiving of the request to place the calendar event in the second UI, and

wherein the aggregation component and the user interface component execute intermittently before and after the start date.

17. The computer storage devices of claim 16, wherein the aggregation component and the UI component comprise instructions, that upon execution further cause the at least one processor to display, after occurrence of the calendar event, photographs taken during the calendar event.

18. The computer storage devices of claim 16, wherein the aggregation component and the UI component comprise instructions, that upon execution further cause the at least one processor to display social network messages relating to the calendar event.

19. The computer storage devices of claim 16, wherein the UI component further causes the at least one processor to:

receive a selection of the data obtained by the aggregation component; and

in response to the received data selection, provide aggregation metadata describing aggregation of the received data selection, wherein the aggregation metadata comprises one or more of the following;

a time of aggregation, a network address associated with the content source, and an attribution of the selected data.

20. The computer storage devices of claim 16, wherein obtaining the data comprises performing, outside the execution context of the calendar application, a text-based search for the data.