LOCATION CONTEXT, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR MEETING LOCATIONS

• US 20170118595A1
• Filed: 01/05/2017
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Benzatti, Danilo L., Bolles, Gregory A., Brough, Andrew Winslow, Cook, Jason Andrew, Faoro, Michael Anthony, Feliberti, Vanessa, Seetharaman, Shivakumar, Tan, Yeelin, Varo, Gustavo
• Granted Patent: US 10,154,381 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user'"'"'s interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user'"'"'s input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying a location field of a meeting item to a user, wherein the location field is represented in a graphical user interface and configured to display a place name, the place name comprising a character string;

receiving an indication of an interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item, wherein the interaction with the place name comprises;

touching of the displayed place name or clicking or moving of a mouse over the displayed place name; and

in response to receiving the indication of the interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item;

retrieving information about a location associated with the place name from a web service; and

displaying the information about the location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the information about the location from the web service comprises:

using a uniform resource identifier associated with the place name to request the information from the web service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the meeting item comprises a received meeting invitation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying information about the location comprises displaying a map image tile for the location.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein retrieving information about the location associated with the place name from the web service and displaying the map image tile for the location comprises:

obtaining geo-coordinates of the location;

passing the geo-coordinates to a web service;

receiving image tile data from the web service; and

rendering the image tile data to display the map image tile, the map image tile comprising a map centered around geo-coordinates of the location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the place name is a room within a building, the room having corresponding geo-coordinates specific to the room and that are separate from geo-coordinates of the building.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the meeting item comprises a location property indicating geo-coordinates of a user device on which the meeting item was created.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the meeting item comprises a location property indicating geo-coordinates of a user device on which the meeting item was created.

8. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that direct a computing system to:

display a location field of a meeting item to a user, wherein the location field is represented in a graphical user interface and configured to display a place name, the place name comprising a character string;

receive an indication of an interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item, wherein the interaction with the place name comprises;

touching of the displayed place name or clicking or moving of a mouse over the displayed place name; and

in response to the indication of the interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item;

retrieve information about a location associated with the place name from a web service; and

display the information about the location.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that direct the computing system to retrieve the information about the location from the web service comprise instructions that direct the computing system to:

use a uniform resource identifier associated with the place name to request the information from the web service.

10. The medium of claim 8, wherein the meeting item comprises a received meeting invitation.

11. The medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that direct the computing system to display information about the location comprise instructions that direct the computing system to display a map image tile for the location.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions that direct the computing system to retrieve information about the location associated with the place name from the web service and display the map image tile for the location comprise instructions that direct the computing system to:

obtain geo-coordinates of the location;

pass the geo-coordinates to a web service;

receive image tile data from the web service; and

render the image tile data to display the map image tile, the map image tile comprising a map centered around geo-coordinates of the location.

13. The medium of claim 11, wherein the place name is a room within a building, the room having geo-coordinates specific to the room and that are separate from geo-coordinates of the building.

14. The medium of claim 11, wherein the meeting item comprises a location property indicating geo-coordinates of a user device on which the meeting item was created.

15. A system comprising:

a processor;

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor perform functions comprising;

displaying a location field of a meeting item to a user, wherein the location field is represented in a graphical user interface and configured to display a place name, the place name comprising a character string;

receiving an indication of an interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item, wherein the interaction with the place name comprises;

touching of the displayed place name or clicking or moving of a mouse over the displayed place name; and

in response to receiving the indication of the interaction with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item;

retrieving information about a location associated with the place name from a web service; and

displaying the information about the location.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein retrieving the information about the location from the web service comprises:

using a uniform resource identifier associated with the place name to request the information from the web service.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the meeting item comprises a received meeting invitation.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein displaying information about the location comprises displaying a map image tile for the location.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein retrieving information about the location associated with the place name from the web service and displaying the map image tile for the location comprises:

obtaining geo-coordinates of the location;

passing the geo-coordinates to a web service;

receiving image tile data from the web service; and

rendering the image tile data to display the map image tile, the map image tile comprising a map centered around geo-coordinates of the location.