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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2016
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Cody Stephen Bryant, Waterloo, CA;
Grant Ross Elliott, Hamilton, CA;
Andrew Joseph Klamut, Waterloo, CA;
Kieran Patrick Cunney, Guelph, CA;
Jared Daniel Lepic, Waterloo, CA;
Bartholomew Alexander Boeckner, Brantford, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
An electronic user deviceis disclosed in which a user interfacefor an email application is displayed. The user interfaceincludes an email threadand a selectable calendar look-up banner. Upon selection of the calendar look-up bannerthe user deviceis configured to retrieve electronic calendars respectively associated with the email users identified in the email thread. A score is then calculated for a plurality of time slots in the retrieved electronic calendars, and the time slots are displayed according to their score. A user can then make a selection of one of the time slots. A calendar event is then populated with information derived from the email threadand is sent to each of the email addresses in the thread, to be added to their electronic calendars.