Comprehensive task management

• US 10,373,124 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2016
• Issued: 08/06/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Prakash, Gyan, Gurumoorthy, Nagasubramanian, Dadu, Saurabh, Ramamurthy, Venkatesh, Sawhney, Rama
• Primary Examiner(s): Parry, Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jahnige, Caroline H
• Application Number:
  US15/371,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20170083876A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Technologies for generating tasks from communication messages includes a mobile computing device for monitoring communication messages, parsing the communication messages to detect content indicative of upcoming tasks, generating a task for each of the upcoming tasks detected, generating a task list from the generated tasks, and generating an alarm for each task. Additionally, the mobile computing device receives tasks generated by a cloud server.

Claims

1. A cloud server for comprehensive task management, the cloud server comprising:

a message monitoring module to (i) monitor online communication messages of a user of a mobile computing device, (ii) parse the online communication messages, and (iii) determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed;

a task generation module to;

generate a plurality of tasks from the parsed online communication messages determined to comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, wherein each task corresponds to a different upcoming task;

synchronize tasks with the mobile computing device, wherein to synchronize tasks with the mobile computing device comprises receiving an indication that the one or more upcoming tasks need to be updated based on a determination by the mobile computing device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed because the mobile computing device is located at a new location and the one or more upcoming tasks are to be completed in an old location different from the new location; and

update the one or more upcoming tasks generated by the mobile computing device as a function of historical data comprising a previous response ignoring, canceling, postponing, or reprioritizing a previous task in response to a location change in response to the determination by the mobile computing device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed in the new location of the mobile computing device; and

a remote device synchronization module to (i) send one or more tasks generated by the task generation module to the mobile computing device of the user over a network, and (ii) receive one or more additional tasks generated by the mobile computing device over the network.

2. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein to monitor the online communication messages comprises to request, from an online service provider, online communication messages sent from the mobile computing device to the online service provider.

3. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein to monitor the online communication messages comprises to receive an online communication message from the mobile computing device, and

wherein the message monitoring module is further to transmit the received online communication message to an online service provider subsequent to a determination whether the received online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed.

4. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein to determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises to detect whether one or more of the online communication messages includes a particular reference phrase or a particular reference keyword.

5. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein to determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises to determine whether one or more online communication messages is from a particular sender or to a particular recipient.

6. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the remote device synchronization module is further to discard duplicate tasks of the one or more tasks generated by the task generation module and the one or more additional tasks received from the mobile computing device.

7. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the task generation module is further to generate in response to the determination by the message monitoring module that at least one parsed online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, a task list from the plurality of tasks generated by the task generation module,

wherein the remote device synchronization module is further to send the task list to the mobile computing device of the user over the network.

8. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the message monitoring module is further to determine a message type for each of the parsed online communication messages.

9. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the historical data comprises historical response data and historical location data, and

wherein to update an upcoming task as a function of historical data in response to determining that the upcoming task can no longer be completed because of the location change comprises to one or more of cancel, reprioritize, reschedule, and ignore the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

10. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the remote device synchronization module is further to one or more of disable, ignore, and modify the sending for the upcoming task in response to the task generation module one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

11. A method for managing tasks, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a cloud server, online communication messages of a user of a mobile computing device;

parsing, by the cloud server, the online communication messages;

determining, by the cloud server, whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed;

generating, by the cloud server, a plurality of tasks from the parsed online communication messages determined to comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, wherein each task corresponds to a different upcoming task;

synchronizing, by the cloud server, tasks with the mobile computing device, wherein synchronizing tasks with the mobile computing device comprises receiving an indication that the one or more upcoming tasks need to be updated based on a determination by the mobile computing device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed because the mobile computing device is located at a new location and the one or more upcoming tasks are to be completed in an old location different from the new location;

updating, by the cloud server, the one or more upcoming tasks generated by the mobile computing device as a function of historical data comprising a previous response ignoring, canceling, postponing, or reprioritizing a previous task in response to a location change in response to the determination by the mobile device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed in the new location of the mobile computing device;

sending, by the cloud server, the one or more upcoming tasks to the mobile computing device of the user over a network; and

receiving, by the cloud server, one or more additional tasks generated by the mobile computing device over the network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein monitoring the online communication messages comprises requesting, from an online service provider, online communication messages sent from the mobile computing device to the online service provider.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein monitoring the online communication messages comprises receiving an online communication message from the mobile computing device, and

further comprising transmitting, by the cloud server, the received online communication message to an online service provider subsequent to a determination whether the received online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein determining whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises detecting whether one or more of the online communication messages includes a particular reference phrase or a particular reference keyword.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein determining whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises determining whether one or more online communication messages is from a particular sender or to a particular recipient.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising discarding duplicate tasks of the one or more tasks generated by the task generation module and the one or more additional tasks received from the mobile computing device.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating, in response to the determination that at least one parsed online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, generate a task list from the generated plurality of tasks; and

sending the task list to the mobile computing device of the user over the network.

18. One or more non-transitory machine readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a cloud server to:

monitor online communication messages of a user of a mobile computing device;

parse the online communication messages;

determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed;

generate a plurality of tasks from the parsed online communication messages determined to comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, wherein each task corresponds to a different upcoming task;

synchronize tasks with the mobile computing device, wherein synchronizing the tasks with the mobile computing device comprises receiving an indication that the one or more upcoming tasks need to be updated based on a determination by the mobile computing device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed because the mobile computing device is located at a new location and the one or more upcoming tasks are to be completed in an old location different from the new location;

update the one or more upcoming tasks generated by the mobile computing device as a function of historical data comprising a previous response ignoring, canceling, postponing, or reprioritizing a previous task in response to a location change in response to the determination by the mobile device that the one or more upcoming tasks can no longer be completed in the new location of the mobile computing device;

send one or more tasks of the generated tasks to the mobile computing device of the user over a network; and

receive one or more additional tasks generated by the mobile computing device over the network.

19. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein to monitor the online communication messages comprises to request, from an online service provider, online communication messages sent from the mobile computing device to the online service provider.

20. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein to monitor the online communication messages comprises to receive an online communication message from the mobile computing device, and

wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the cloud server to transmit the received online communication message to an online service provider subsequent to a determination whether the received online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed.

21. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein to determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises to detect whether one or more of the online communication messages includes a particular reference phrase or a particular reference keyword.

22. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein to determine whether any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises to determine whether one or more online communication messages is from a particular sender or to a particular recipient.

23. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the cloud server to discard duplicate tasks of the one or more tasks generated by the task generation module and the one or more additional tasks received from the mobile computing device.

24. The one or more non-transitory machine readable media of claim 18, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the cloud server to:

generate, in response to the determination that at least one parsed online communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, generate a task list from the generated plurality of tasks; and

send the task list to the mobile computing device of the user over the network.