CREATING DIGITAL EVENTS UTILIZING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

• US 20170200128A1
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kumahara, John
• Application Number:
  US14/990,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20170200128A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

One or more embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods that create digital events based on text contained in one or more electronic communications. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods utilize natural language processing techniques to detect event details from text in one or more electronic communications. Disclosed systems and methods utilize detected event details to create, modify, and send digital events.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting, by at least one processor, event details from text in at least one electronic communication shared between a plurality of users of a communication application;

determining, by the at least one processor, that the event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication satisfy a minimum event detail threshold;

based on the determination that the event details satisfy the minimum event detail threshold, presenting for display an indication of an event to the plurality of users;

based on user interaction with the presented indication, creating a digital event; and

sending information regarding the created digital event to at least one of the plurality of users via the communication application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

detecting event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication between the plurality of users of the communication application comprises:

detecting a first event detail from first text in a first electronic communication between the plurality of users; and

detecting a second event detail from second text in a second electronic communication between the plurality of users;

presenting for display the indication comprises;

presenting the indication of the event with regard to the first text; and

creating the digital event comprises;

creating the digital event utilizing the first event detail and the second event detail.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting event details from text in the at least one electronic communication shared between the plurality of users of the communication application further comprises:

identifying a time window based on one or more characteristics of the at least one electronic communication;

limiting the at least one electronic communication to a set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the time window; and

detecting event details by analyzing the set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the time window.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more characteristics of the at least one electronic communication comprises at least one of the following:

an amount of time between electronic communications, a date of the at least one electronic communication, or a time of the at least one communication.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the minimum event detail threshold comprises a number of detected event details corresponding to the created digital event, the number of detected event details being greater than one.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after creating the digital event, identifying one or more additional event details from one or more additional electronic communications between the plurality of users; and

modifying the digital event based on the one or more additional event details.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of users are participating in a thread of electronic messages, and wherein the method further comprises:

modifying the number of users participating in the thread of electronic messages based on the digital event.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein modifying the number of users participating in the thread of electronic messages based on the digital event comprises:

determining that at least one user of the plurality of users participating in the thread of electronic messages is not part of the digital event; and

removing the at least one user that is not part of the digital event from participating in the thread of electronic messages.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the digital event comprises:

accessing a plurality of existing digital events created by users of an online social network;

comparing the detected event details to the plurality of existing digital events;

based on the comparison, identifying at least one existing digital event from the plurality of existing digital events created by users of the online social network that correspond to the detected event details; and

creating the digital event based, at least in part, on the identified at least one existing digital event from the plurality of existing digital events created by users of the online social network.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

detecting a modification to the at least one existing digital event from the plurality of existing digital events created by users of the online social network; and

modifying the created digital event based on the modification to the at least one existing digital event from the plurality of events created by the users of the online social network.

11. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to;

detect event details from text in at least one electronic communication shared between a plurality of users of a communication application;

determine that the event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication satisfy a minimum event detail threshold;

based on the determination that the event details satisfy the minimum event detail threshold, present for display an indication of an event to the plurality of users;

based on user interaction with the presented indication, create a digital event; and

send information regarding the created digital event to at least one of the plurality of users via the communication application.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein

detecting event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication between the plurality of users of the communication application comprises:

detecting a first event detail from first text in a first electronic communication between the plurality of users; and

detecting a second event detail from second text in a second electronic communication between the plurality of users;

presenting for display the indication comprises;

presenting the indication of the event with regard to the first text and the second text; and

creating the digital event comprises;

creating the digital event utilizing the first event detail and the second event detail.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein detecting event details from text in the at least one electronic communication shared between the plurality of users of the communication application further comprises:

identifying a time window based on one or more characteristics of the at least one electronic communication;

limiting the at least one electronic communication to a set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the event communication time window; and

detecting event details by analyzing the set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the event communication time window.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:

after creating the digital event, identify one or more additional event details from one or more additional electronic communications between the plurality of users; and

modify the digital event based on the one or more additional event details.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein creating the digital event comprises:

accessing a plurality of existing digital events created by users of an online social network;

comparing the detected event details to the plurality of existing digital events;

based on the comparison, identifying at least one existing digital event from the plurality of existing digital events created by users of the online social network that correspond to the detected event details; and

creating the digital event based on the identified at least one existing digital event from the plurality of existing digital events created by users of the online social network.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computer system to:

detect event details from text in at least one electronic communication shared between a plurality of users of a communication application;

determine that the event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication satisfy a minimum event detail threshold;

based on the determination that the event details satisfy the minimum event detail threshold, present for display an indication of an event to the plurality of users;

based on user interaction with the presented indication, create a digital event; and

send information regarding the created digital event to at least one of the plurality of users via the communication application.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein

detecting event details from the text in the at least one electronic communication between the plurality of users of the communication application comprises:

detecting a first event detail from first text in a first electronic communication between the plurality of users; and

detecting a second event detail from second text in a second electronic communication between the plurality of users;

presenting for display the indication comprises;

presenting an indication of the event with regard to the first text and the second text; and

creating the digital event comprises;

creating a digital event utilizing the first event detail and the second event detail.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein detecting event details from the plurality of words in the at least one electronic communication further comprises:

identifying a time window based on one or more characteristics of the at least one electronic communication;

limiting the at least one electronic communication to a set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the time window; and

detecting event details by analyzing the set of one or more electronic communications that fall within the time window.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to:

after creating the digital event, identify one or more additional event details from one or more additional electronic communications between the plurality of users; and

modify the digital event based on the one or more additional event details.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the plurality of users are participating in a thread of electronic communications, and wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further comprises instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to modify the number of users participating in the thread of electronic communications based on the digital event.