Apparatus and method for detecting messages in a parsing process

• US 9,607,290 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2010
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CWT Digital Limited
• Original Assignee: Worldmate Incorporated
• Inventors: Kirshenboim, Amir, Meir, Idan, Rabinowitz, David, Ben Yakar, Eli, Gur, Nadav
• Primary Examiner(s): Fibbi, Christopher J
• Application Number:
  US12/852,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20110239160A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,424 Days
• Field of Search: 715/810, 715/752, 705/5, 705/6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

The subject matter discloses a method of handling messages received to an email client of a computerized device, the method comprises detecting the received message, said message is generated by a machine in a structured format; identifying the detected message to be conformant to a structured template related to a computerized application; generating a response upon identifying the message. In some cases, the rules are generated by a server connected to a plurality of computerized devices to create efficient and fast rules and templates.

Claims

1. A computerized method for handling travel confirmation e-mails, the method comprising:

sending, from a travel itinerary application of a remote server to a user device, template mapping data comprising a set of a plurality of travel itinerary suppliers and at least one structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers, wherein each structured confirmation e-mail template characterizes a standard format in which travel confirmation e-mails are provided by the corresponding travel itinerary supplier;

receiving, at the user device having an e-mail client, the template mapping data from the remote server including the set of travel itinerary suppliers and the structured confirmation e-mail templates, wherein the user device, the remote server and each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers are separate devices;

storing, at the user device, the template mapping data including the set of travel itinerary suppliers and the structured confirmation e-mail templates;

automatically detecting a received e-mail at the e-mail client residing on the user device, wherein the e-mail is received from one of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers;

at the user device, automatically extracting confirmation e-mail data from the received e-mail and automatically using the confirmation e-mail data extracted from the e-mail to identify;

(a) a supplier of the received e-mail, and (b) the structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to the supplier of the received e-mail using the template mapping data received from the remote server and stored at the user device;

at the user device, automatically using the confirmation e-mail data extracted from the received e-mail to determine the conformance of the received e-mail to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template;

at the user device, automatically causing a user interface to be displayed in response to a determination that the received e-mail conforms to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template, the user interface prompting the user for feedback regarding whether or not to forward the e-mail to the travel itinerary application of the remote server, wherein the user device forwards the e-mail to the remote server in response to positive user feedback;

receiving the e-mail at the remote server and using the travel itinerary application on the remote server to populate an itinerary item using contents of the received e-mail; and

accessing, from the user device, the itinerary item populated by the travel itinerary application on the remote server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at the remote server, using a plurality of e-mails forwarded from different e-mail clients and user devices to update at least one structured template for sending to user devices.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at the user device, extracting additional data from the received e-mail according to the identified structured template.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at the user device, determining whether the identified structured template matches a structured template associated with an application installed on the user device; and

forwarding at least one of the received e-mail and the data extracted from the received e-mail to the application in response to a positive determination.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at the user device, generating a new e-mail address comprising the data extracted from the received e-mail;

sending a new e-mail from the e-mail client to the new e-mail address at a domain of the remote server; and

at the remote server, parsing the new e-mail address to identify and extract the data previously extracted from the e-mail received at the e-mail client.

6. A system for handling travel confirmation e-mails, the system comprising:

a remote server comprising a processor and data storage;

a user device comprising a processor and data storage;

the remote server comprising a travel itinerary application, wherein the remote server sends template mapping data to the user device, the template mapping data comprising a set of a plurality of travel itinerary suppliers and at least one structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers, wherein each structured confirmation e-mail template characterizes a standard format in which travel confirmation e- mails are provided by the corresponding travel itinerary supplier;

the user device having an e-mail client, the user device receiving the template mapping data from the remote server including the set of travel itinerary suppliers and the structured confirmation e-mail templates, wherein the user device, the remote server and each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers are separate devices;

wherein the user device stores the template mapping data including the set of travel itinerary suppliers and the structured confirmation e-mail templates;

wherein the user device detects a received e-mail from one of the plurality of travel itinerary_suppliers at the e-mail client residing on the user device, and the user device automatically extracts confirmation e-mail data from the received e-mail and uses the extracted confirmation e-mail data to identify;

(a) a supplier of the received e-mail, and (b) the structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to the supplier of the received e-mail using the template mapping data received from the remote server and stored at the user device;

wherein the user device uses the extracted confirmation e-mail data to determine the conformance of the received e-mail to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template;

wherein the user device causes a user interface to be displayed in response to a determination that the received e-mail conforms to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template, the user interface prompting the user for feedback regarding whether or not to forward the e-mail to the travel itinerary application of the remote server, wherein the e-mail client forwards the e-mail to the remote server in response to positive user feedback;

wherein the remote server receives the e-mail and uses the travel itinerary application to populate an itinerary item using contents of the received e-mail; and

wherein the user device accesses the itinerary item populated by the travel itinerary application on the remote server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the remote server is further configured to use a plurality of e-mails forwarded from different e-mail clients and user devices to update at least one structured template for sending to user devices.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the user device extracts additional data from the received e-mail according to the identified structured template.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the user device:

determines whether the identified structured template matches a structured template associated with an application installed on the user device; and

forwards at least one of the received e-mail and the data extracted from the received e-mail to the application in response to a positive determination.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the user device generates a new e-mail address comprising the data extracted from the received e-mail and sends a new e-mail to the new e-mail address at a domain of the remote server;

and

wherein the remote server parses the new e-mail address to identify and extract the data previously extracted from the e-mail received at the e-mail client.

11. A computerized method for handling travel confirmation e-mails, the method comprising:

receiving, at a user device having an e-mail client, template mapping data from a travel itinerary application of a remote server, the template mapping data comprising a set of a plurality of travel itinerary suppliers and at least one structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers, wherein each structured confirmation e-mail template characterizes a standard format in which travel confirmation e-mails are provided by the corresponding travel itinerary supplier, wherein the user device, the remote server, and each of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers are separate devices;

storing, at the user device, the template mapping data including the set of travel itinerary suppliers and the structured confirmation e-mail templates;

automatically detecting a received e-mail at the e-mail client residing on the user device, wherein the e-mail is received from one of the plurality of travel itinerary suppliers;

at the user device, automatically extracting confirmation e-mail data from the received e-mail and automatically using the confirmation e-mail data extracted from the received e-mail to identify;

(a) a supplier of the received e-mail, and (b) the structured confirmation e-mail template corresponding to the supplier of the received e-mail using the template mapping data received from the remote server and stored at the user device;

at the user device, automatically using the confirmation e-mail data extracted from the received e-mail to determine the conformance of the received e-mail to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template;

at the user device, automatically causing a user interface to be displayed in response to a determination that the received e-mail conforms to the identified structured confirmation e-mail template, the user interface prompting the user for feedback regarding whether or not to forward the e-mail to a travel itinerary application of the remote server, wherein the user device forwards the e-mail to the remote server in response to positive user feedback, wherein the travel itinerary application on the remote server uses contents of the forwarded e-mail to create an itinerary item; and

accessing, from the user device, the itinerary item created by the travel itinerary application on the remote server.