COMPREHENSIVE TASK MANAGEMENT

• US 20170083876A1
• Filed: 12/06/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Prakash, Gyan, Gurumoorthly, Nagasubramanian, Dadu, Saurabh, Ramamurthy, Venkatesh, Sawhney, Rama
• Granted Patent: US 10,373,124 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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 communication 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, without direction from the user, 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; 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 communication 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 could 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 form the mobile computing device.

7. The cloud server of claim 1, wherein the task generation module is further to generate, without direction from the user and 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. A method for managing tasks, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a cloud server, online communication messages of a user of a mobile communication 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 and without direction from the user, 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;

sending, by the cloud server, one or more tasks of the generated 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.

9. The method of claim 8, 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.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein monitoring the online communication messages comprises receiving an online communication message from the mobile communication 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.

11. The method of claim 8, 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.

12. The method of claim 8, 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.

13. The method of claim 8, 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 form the mobile computing device.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

generating, without direction from the user and 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.

15. One or more 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 communication 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, without direction from the user, 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;

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.

16. The one or more machine readable media of claim 15, 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.

17. The one or more machine readable media of claim 15, wherein to monitor the online communication messages comprises to receive an online communication message from the mobile communication 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.

18. The one or more machine readable media of claim 15, 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.

19. The one or more machine readable media of claim 15, 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.

20. The method of claim 15, 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 form the mobile computing device.

21. The one or more machine readable media of claim 15, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the cloud server to:

generate, without direction from the user and 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.

25. The one or more machine readable media of claim 20, 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 a determination that the upcoming task can no longer be completed comprises to one or more of cancel, reprioritize, reschedule, or ignore the upcoming task as a function of the historical data.

22. One or more machine readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a mobile computing device to:

generate, without direction from a user of the mobile computing device, a plurality of tasks based on communication messages of the mobile computing device determined to comprise content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed;

generate, without direction from the user and in response to the determination that at least one parsed communication message comprises content indicative of one or more upcoming tasks to be completed, a task list from the plurality of tasks generated;

determine whether one or more upcoming tasks on the task list can no longer be completed because the one or more upcoming tasks was scheduled to be completed in a location different from a present location of the mobile computing device; and

update an upcoming task as a function of historical data in response to a determination that the upcoming task can no longer be completed because the upcoming task was scheduled to be completed in the location different from the present location of the mobile computing device.

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

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

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

24. The one or more machine readable media of claim 22, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the mobile computing device to:

determine a priority for each task on the task list;

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

wherein to generate a task list from the plurality of generated tasks comprises to generate 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.