Activity Cards

• US 20140229860A1
• Filed: 02/13/2013
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Rogers, March, Gitenstein, Benjamin B., Aziz, Imran, Giacobbe, Gail, Porras Luraschi, Javier, Danhope, Stefanie J.
• Application Number:
  US13/766,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20140229860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group

Abstract

The description relates to activity cards. One example can allow a user to select a recipient of an activity card. The example can receive feedback from the recipient regarding at least one of a location, a time, and further recipients of the activity card. The example can also send an updated activity card to the user and the recipient that reflects the feedback.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

allowing a user to select a recipient of an activity card;

receiving feedback from the recipient regarding at least one of a location, a time, and further recipients of the activity card; and

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sending an updated activity card to the user and the recipient that reflects the feedback, wherein the sending is performed by a computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the allowing comprises presenting a contacts list associated with the user and allowing the user to select the recipient from the contacts list.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising, in an instance where the recipient is associated with multiple phone numbers, enabling the user to specify an individual phone number and the sending comprises sending the updated activity card to the individual phone number.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising, in an instance where the recipient is associated with multiple email addresses, enabling the user to specify an individual email address and the sending comprises sending the updated activity card to the individual email address.

5. At least one computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform acts, comprising:

receiving user input relating to an activity;

generating an activity card based upon the activity;

populating the activity card with content derived from the user input;

obtaining additional user input that defines at least one recipient of the activity card; and

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causing the activity card to be sent to the at least one recipient.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the receiving user input comprises receiving a photograph.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the generating comprises analyzing communications of the user relating to the activity or similar activities to identify potential recipients and further comprising suggesting the potential recipients to the user.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the generating comprises analyzing other existing activity cards.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the populating comprises performing optical character recognition on the photograph to derive text from the photograph and applying natural language processing to the text and using at least some of the text in a search query.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the populating comprises obtaining metadata from the photograph and utilizing the metadata to obtain the content.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the metadata comprises location information and the content relates to a map of the location.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the generating comprises presenting the activity card on a graphical user interface of a computing device.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the generating comprises sending the activity card for presentation on a remote computing device.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the obtaining comprises presenting a contacts list to the user and allowing the user to select the at least one recipient from the contacts list.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the obtaining comprises presenting available dates and times from a calendar of the user and a calendar of the at least one recipient.

16. A system, comprising:

a display;

storage having instructions stored thereon;

a processor configured to process the instructions to create a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display; and

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the GUI comprising an activity card, wherein the activity card includes content provided by a user and autopopulated content derived from the user content, and wherein the activity card is configured to allow negotiation between recipients of details of the activity card, and wherein the activity card includes a feature that is configured to stop the negotiation and lock the details.

17. The system of claim 16, embodied on a single device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions comprise an activity card application.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the activity card is generated remotely and wherein the instructions cause the remotely generated activity card to be presented on the GUI.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the processor to apply natural language processing to the user content and further configured to utilize results of the natural language processing to obtain the autopopulated content from a remote resource and to integrate the autopopulated content with the user content.