COMPREHENSIVE TASK MANAGEMENT

• US 20140189017A1
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Prakash, Gyan, Dadu, Saurabh, Ramamurthy, Venkatesh, Gurumoorthly, Nagasubramanian, Sawhney, Rama
• Granted Patent: US 9,514,448 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• 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 mobile computing device for comprehensive task management, the mobile computing device comprising:

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

a task list generation module to generate a task list from the plurality of tasks generated by the task generation module; and

a notification module to generate an alarm for each task on the task list.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the communication messages comprise at least one of an e-mail message, a text message, a chat message, a social networking post, a social networking comment, and a voice command.

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein to determine whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises to determine whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content corresponding to at least one of a reference phrase and a reference keyword.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1, further comprising a remote device synchronization module to (i) send one or more tasks generated by the task generation module to a cloud server over a network, and (ii) receive one or more additional tasks generated by the cloud server over the network.

5. The mobile computing device of claim 4, wherein to generate a task list from the plurality of tasks generated by the task generation module comprises to generate a task list from the plurality of tasks generated by the task generation module and the one or more additional tasks received from the cloud server.

6. The mobile computing device of claim 5, wherein the task list generation module further to (i) determine a priority for each task on the task list, and (ii) arrange each of the tasks on the task list as a function of the determined priority.

7. The mobile computing device of claim 6, wherein to determine a priority for each task on the task list comprises to determine a priority for each task on the task list as a function of user policy data, the user policy data comprising rules corresponding to determining the priority of tasks having one or more of health and financial implications.

8. The mobile computing device of claim 6, further comprising a context monitoring module to determine a location of the mobile computing device;

and

wherein the task list generation module further to (i) determine that the location of the mobile computing device has changed, (ii) determine whether one or more upcoming tasks on the task list can no longer be completed because of the location change, and (iii) 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.

9. The mobile computing device of claim 8, 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 mobile computing device of claim 9, wherein the notification module further to one or more of disable, ignore, and modify the alarm generated for the upcoming task in response to the task list generation module one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

11. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein to generate an alarm for each task on the task list comprises to generate a notification on the mobile computing device for alerting a user prior to occurrence of the task.

12. The mobile computing device of claim 11, wherein the notification generated on the mobile computing device comprises at least one of a visual notification, and audible notification, and tactile feedback.

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

monitoring, on a mobile computing device, communication messages on the mobile computing device;

parsing, on the mobile computing device, the communication messages;

determining, on the mobile computing device, whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed;

generating, on the mobile computing device, a plurality of tasks from the parsed communication messages determined to comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, each task corresponding to a different upcoming task;

generating, on the mobile computing device, a task list from the plurality of tasks generated; and

generating, on the mobile computing device, an alarm for each task on the task list.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein determining whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises determining whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content corresponding to at least one of a reference phrase and a reference keyword.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

sending one or more of the tasks generated on the mobile computing device to a cloud server over a network; and

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

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining, on the mobile computing device, a priority for each task on the task list;

arranging, on the mobile computing device, each of the tasks on the task list as a function of the determined priority; and

wherein generating a task list from the plurality of generated tasks comprises generating a task list from the plurality of tasks generated on the mobile computing device and the one or more additional tasks received from the cloud server.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining, on the mobile computing device, a location of the mobile computing device;

determining, on the mobile computing device, that the location of the mobile computing device has changed;

determining, on the mobile computing device, whether one or more upcoming tasks on the task list can no longer be completed because of the location change; and

updating, on the mobile computing device, 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.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the historical data comprises historical response data and historical location data, and

wherein updating 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 one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising one or more of disabling, ignoring, and modifying the alarm generated for the upcoming task in response to one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

20. One or more machine readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed result in a mobile computing device:

monitoring communication messages on the mobile computing device;

parsing the communication messages;

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

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

generating a task list from the plurality of tasks generated; and

generating an alarm for each task on the task list.

21. The one or more machine readable media of claim 20, wherein determining whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed comprises determining whether any of the parsed communication messages comprise content corresponding to at least one of a reference phrase and a reference keyword.

22. The one or more machine readable media of claim 20, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the mobile computing device:

sending one or more of the tasks generated on the mobile computing device to a cloud server over a network; and

receiving one or more additional tasks from the cloud server over the network, the one or more additional tasks being generated by the cloud server.

23. The one or more machine readable media of claim 22, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the mobile computing device:

determining a priority for each task on the task list;

arranging each of the tasks on the task list as a function of the determined priority; and

wherein generating a task list from the plurality of generated tasks comprises generating a task list from the plurality of tasks generated on the mobile computing device and the one or more additional tasks received from the cloud server.

24. The one or more machine readable media of claim 23, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the mobile computing device:

determining a location of the mobile computing device;

determining that the location of the mobile computing device has changed;

determining whether one or more upcoming tasks on the task list can no longer be completed because of the location change; and

updating 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.

25. The one or more machine readable media of claim 24, wherein the historical data comprises historical response data and historical location data, and

wherein updating 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 one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

26. The one or more machine readable media of claim 25, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the mobile computing device one or more of disabling, ignoring, and modifying the alarm generated for the upcoming task in response to one or more of canceling, reprioritizing, rescheduling, and ignoring the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

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

a message monitoring module to (i) monitor online communication messages, (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, each task corresponding to a different upcoming task; and

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

28. The cloud server of claim 27, wherein the online communication messages comprise at least one of an e-mail message, a text message, a chat message, a social networking post, a social networking comment, and a voice command.

29. The cloud server of claim 27, 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 any of the parsed online communication messages comprise content corresponding to at least one of a reference phrase and a reference keyword.