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US08832205B2 System and method for extracting calendar events from free-form email
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从自由形式电子邮件中提取日历事件的系统和方法
- Patent Title: System and method for extracting calendar events from free-form email
- Patent Title (中): 从自由形式电子邮件中提取日历事件的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12610757Application Date: 2009-11-02
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Publication No.: US08832205B2Publication Date: 2014-09-09
- Inventor: Marie-France Nelson , Lee Tannenbaum , Debarshi Bhowal , Mahesh Sharma
- Applicant: Marie-France Nelson , Lee Tannenbaum , Debarshi Bhowal , Mahesh Sharma
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Altos
- Assignee: Lextine Software, LLC
- Current Assignee: Lextine Software, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Altos
- Agency: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; G06Q10/10

Abstract:
A system and method are described for automatically detecting calendar events within a free-form email message. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention for automatically detecting calendar events within a free-form email message potentially including one or more attachments comprising: a pre-processor to detect one or more keywords within a free-form email message and/or free-form attachments, the keywords indicating whether the free-form email message or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the pre-processor identifying the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments as potentially containing calendar data upon detecting the one or more keywords; and a natural language processor to further process text from the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments to determine whether the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the natural language processor to parse the email message and/or attachments and evaluate the email message and/or attachments using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to determine the existence of one or more calendar events; and a calendar event generator to extract calendar data from the email message and/or attachments in response to the natural language processor detecting a calendar event, the calendar event generator to update a calendar using the extracted calendar data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110106892A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CALENDAR EVENTS FROM FREE-FORM EMAIL Public/Granted day:2011-05-05
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