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Method and system for locating events in-context

  • US 8,185,524 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2006
  • Issued: 05/22/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for locating and presenting events in-context comprising:

  • automatically extracting, by a computing device, attributes from at least a portion of an electronic document associated with a user;

    obtaining, by the computing device, a set of contextual information, the set of contextual information comprising contextual information selected from a group of contextual information types consisting of user behavior, user preferences, and user environment;

    analyzing, by the computing device, the attributes and the set of contextual information to cause generation of one or more search terms;

    analyzing, by the computing device, context of the attributes of the document, where the context of the attributes includes sender and receiver of the document, location, time, and theme of the events to be searched;

    generating, based on the analyzing steps, the one or more search terms;

    determining, by the computing device, search results for events based on the one or more search terms;

    andcausing, by the computing device, a display of the search results simultaneously with at least a portion of a display of the electronic document.

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