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

• Current Assignee: Buzd, LLC
• Original Assignee: Buzd, LLC
• Inventors: Shuster, Gary Stephen, Goldsmith, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Gart, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Swartz, Stephen S
• Application Number:
  US14/035,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A situational and global context aware calendar, communications, and/or relationship management method and system is disclosed. The system is configured to receive non-calendaring related context information, and, based on that context information, to automatically determine one or more parameters of a meeting request.

Claims

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;

or

condition 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.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the social media data comprises religious information, and the one or more religious, or cultural attributes for the respective invitees comprises religious attributes.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the at least one recommended meeting parameter comprises at least one recommended meeting time based, at least in part, on the one or more religious or cultural attributes.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the meeting request indicates a dining request and the at least one recommended meeting parameter comprises at least one recommended dining location.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the at least one recommended meeting parameter comprises venue information based on preferences identified in the accessed social media data of one or more of the invitees.

6. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the at least one recommended meeting parameter is further based on travel information for one or more of the invitees.

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein a first of the at least one recommended meeting advice parameter indicates an action to take with reference to a first invitee, wherein the first of the at least one recommended meeting advice parameter is provided to a user of the user device in response to detecting an observed behavior of the first invitee.

8. The computing system of claim 4, wherein the at least one recommended dining location is further based on dining preferences of one or more invitees.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing software instructions configured for execution by a computing system having one or more hardware processors, the instructions configured to cause 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 the 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 for 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 that are associated with the determined religious or cultural attributes for 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;

or

condition 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.

10. A computerized method, comprising:

receiving, by a computing system having one or more computer processors, a query regarding a meeting request from a user device, the meeting request indicating one or more invitees;

accessing, by the computing system, 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 the 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;

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

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

comparing, by the computing system, 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;

identifying, by the computing system, one or more meeting advice parameters in the data structure associated with determined religious or cultural attributes for the respective invitees;

determining, 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;

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; and

transmitting, by the computing system, to a scheduling application of the user device, at least one recommended meeting parameter comprising one or more of;

venues;

venue availability;

cost of transportation to proposed venues;

cost of venues;

or

condition of venues;

of a meeting satisfying the meeting request.