Calendar interface for digital communications

• US 8,055,707 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2005
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VL Collective IP, LLC (VideoLabs, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Desai, Snehal, Rao, Kashipati G., Jachner, Jack, Suhail, Atiya
• Primary Examiner(s): DONAGHUE, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US11/290,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124371A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,169 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• 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: H04M 1/2535 adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network equipment and services H04M7/006; implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57

Abstract

Information from communications is displayed in a calendar format. Text from the communications is used to determine whether a scheduling entry should be created. If so, text from the communication is used to create a proposed calendar or to-do list entry, which can be saved, modified or canceled by the user. Information from a call log can be filtered and displayed in a calendar format.

Claims

1. A method of generating entries for a scheduling program on a processing device, comprising the steps of:

parsing text from a communication received by the processing device, wherein the communication includes a voice communication received by the processing device;

determining whether the communication relates to an event by using voice recognition to create text from the voice communication and analyzing the text for key words commonly used to refer to an event;

when the text includes the key words, determining whether the text provides information needed to create an entry for the event;

responsive to determining information needed to create an entry for a scheduling event, automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program including information derived from the text of the voice communication.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program includes the step of automatically creating a calendar entry that may be accepted, modified and canceled.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of automatically creating a proposed entry for the scheduling program includes the step of automatically creating a to-do list entry.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said parsing step includes the step of interfacing with a telephony system to translate information from the voice communication into a predetermined format.

5. Processing device for generating entries for a scheduling program, comprising:

apparatus for parsing text from a communication received by the processing device, wherein the communication includes a text message;

apparatus for determining whether the text includes key words indicating that the communication relates to a scheduling event;

apparatus for when the text includes key words indicating that the communication relates to a scheduling event, determining whether the text provides information needed to create an entry for the scheduling event; and

apparatus for automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program including information derived from the text of the communication responsive to determining information needed to create an entry for the scheduling event.

6. The processing device of claim 5 wherein apparatus for automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program includes apparatus for automatically creating a calendar entry that may be accepted, modified and canceled.

7. The processing device of claim 5 wherein apparatus for automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program includes apparatus for automatically creating a to-do list entry.

8. The processing device of claim 5 wherein said parsing apparatus includes apparatus for interfacing with a text messaging system to translate information from the text message into a predetermined format.

9. The processing device of claim 8 wherein apparatus for automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program including information derived from the text of the communication responsive to determining information needed to create an entry for a scheduling event, includes:

apparatus for determining whether words surrounding the key words provide enough information to create an entry for the scheduling event.

10. The processing device of claim 9, wherein the said parsing apparatus receives text from the communication and looks for key words commonly used to refer to an event.

11. A method of generating entries for a calendar-centric information organizer on a processing device, comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of communications by the processing device, wherein the plurality of communications include the following types of communications;

voice communication, text message and email;

converting each of the plurality of communications into a predetermined format;

parsing text from each of the plurality of communications received by the processing device;

determining whether the text from any of the plurality of communications relates to an event by analyzing the text of each of the plurality of communications for key words commonly used to refer to an event;

when the text of one of the plurality of communications includes the key words, determining whether the text of the one of the plurality of communications provides information needed to create an entry for the event; and

responsive to determining information needed to create an entry for a scheduling event, automatically creating an entry for the scheduling program including information derived from the text of the one of the plurality of communications.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said converting step includes the steps of:

interfacing with a telephony system to translate information from a voice communication into the predetermined format;

interfacing with a text message to translate information from a text message into the predetermined format; and

interfacing with an email system to translate information form an email into the predetermined format.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying information by the processing device for each of the plurality of communications in a calendar format according to the date associated with each of the plurality of communications.