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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CALENDAR EVENTS FROM FREE-FORM EMAIL

  • US 20110106892A1
  • Filed: 11/02/2009
  • Published: 05/05/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for automatically detecting calendar events within a free-form email message potentially including one or more attachments comprising:

  • a pre-processor to detect one or more keywords within a free-form email message and/or free-form attachments, the keywords indicating whether the free-form email message or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the pre-processor identifying the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments as potentially containing calendar data upon detecting the one or more keywords; and

    a natural language processor to further process text from the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments to determine whether the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the natural language processor to parse the email message and/or attachments and evaluate the email message and/or attachments using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to determine the existence of one or more calendar events; and

    a calendar event generator to extract calendar data from the email message and/or attachments in response to the natural language processor detecting a calendar event, the calendar event generator to update a calendar using the extracted calendar data.

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