STRUCTURED SUGGESTIONS

• US 20150347985A1
• Filed: 05/28/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: GROSS, Daniel C., YANG, Lawrence Y., LEMAY, Stephen O., JON, Tiffany S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,579,212 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments

Abstract

An electronic device suggests contacts and calendar events for users based on their messages. The device can analyze a user'"'"'s messages for contact and event information and automatically generate or update suggested contacts and calendar events for the user based on this information. The suggested contacts and calendar events can be searchable as if they were manually entered by the user, and the user can choose to add or ignore the suggested contacts and calendar events.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

receive a message;

identify, in the received message, event information; and

generate a calendar event associated with the identified event information, the generated calendar event comprising the event information and an indication that the generated calendar event is a suggested calendar event.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the identified event information comprises a date and a time.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein instructions to identify event information further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

identify a format of content in the message;

identify a template from a collection of predefined templates that is configured to recognize event information in the format of the content in the message; and

analyze the content with the identified template for the event information.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the message comprises an email and the content comprises a reservation.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

update the collection of predefined templates over a network.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein instructions to identify event information further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

identify in the message one or more references to a date and time based on a collection of predefined references to a date and time; and

analyze the one or more identified references to a date and time for the event information.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

update the collection of predefined references to a date and time over a network.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

downgrade one or more of the predefined references to a date and time as a result of a request to reject the suggested calendar event.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

generate one or more of the predefined references to a date and time by cross-correlating event information in a database comprising a plurality of calendar events with language associated with event information on the electronic device.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

receive a request for a calendar event; and

in response to the request for a calendar event, search the suggested calendar event.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to the generation of the calendar event, refrain from storing the suggested calendar event in a remote database over a network.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

receive a request to add the suggested calendar event to a database comprising a plurality of calendar events; and

in response to the request to add the suggested calendar event to the database, store the generated calendar event, without the indication that the generated calendar event is a suggested calendar event, in the database.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to the request to add the suggested calendar event to the database, store the generated calendar event, without the indication that the generated calendar event is a suggested calendar event, in a remote database over a network.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the device to:

receive a request to reject the suggested calendar event; and

in response to the request to reject the suggested calendar event, prevent the suggested calendar event from being generated in the future as a result of the event information being identified in a future message.

15. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

receiving a message;

identifying, in the received message, event information; and

generating a calendar event associated with the identified event information, the generated calendar event comprising the event information and an indication that the generated calendar event is a suggested calendar event.

16. A method comprising:

at an electronic device;

receiving a message;

identifying, in the received message, event information; and

generating a calendar event associated with the identified event information, the generated calendar event comprising the event information and an indication that the generated calendar event is a suggested calendar event.