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Providing recommended meeting parameters based on religious or cultural attributes of meeting invitees obtained from social media data

  • US 9,754,243 B2
  • Filed: 09/24/2013
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2012
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computing system comprising:

  • one or more computer processors; and

    a non-transitory storage device;

    wherein the non-transitory storage device stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more computer processors, causes the computing system to;

    receive a query regarding a meeting request from a user device, the meeting request indicating one or more invitees;

    access, from at least one server having one or more data repositories storing social media data input by one or more persons into one or more social media services, social media data related to one or more invitees, wherein the accessed social media data comprises one or more stored images generated by an imaging sensor and stored by the one or more data repositories and does not include calendar schedules;

    perform face recognition on the stored image(s) to identify at least one of the one or more invitees;

    determine, based on content of textual data in or associated with the stored image(s), one or more religious or cultural attributes of respective invitees;

    compare the determined religious or cultural attribute(s) against a data structure having associations between particular religious and cultural attributes and corresponding meeting advice parameters indicating how to avoid offending the respective invitees;

    identify one or more meeting advice parameters in the data structure based on the one or more determined religious or cultural attributes of the respective invitees;

    determine, in near real time, the locations of a user of the user device and the respective invitees from a geolocation sensor on at least one mobile device associated with the user or the respective invitees; and

    identify at least one recommended meeting parameter based, at least in part, on the one or more meeting advice parameters and the locations of the user and the respective invitees, the at least one recommended meeting parameter comprising one or more of;

    venues;

    venue availability;

    cost of transportation to proposed venues;

    cost of venues;

    orcondition of venues;

    of a meeting satisfying the meeting request;

    transmit to a scheduling application of the user device the at least one recommended meeting parameter.

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