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Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

May. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jagannatha Raju Dantuluri, Sammamish, WA (US);

Karan Singh, Seattle, WA (US);

Shira Weinberg, Tel Aviv, IL;

Richa Prasad, Seattle, WA (US);

Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for surfacing scheduling conflicts and/or for facilitating appointment scheduling based upon conflict detection. A user may maintain user appointment data comprising user appointments (e.g., calendar entries within a work calendar). Because user activity may not be fully reflected in the appointment data (e.g., no calendar entries for routine grocery shopping, soccer practice, etc.), potential conflicts may exist between user appointments and the true availability of the user. Accordingly, user signals (e.g., email(s), location check-ins, etc. associated with soccer practice) may be evaluated to generate a user inferred behavior pattern that may be used to identify a potential conflict with a user appointment (e.g., where the user consents to the gathering and/or use of such user signals). A warning of the potential conflict may be surfaced to the user (e.g., a Tuesday dinner calendar meeting conflicts with routine soccer practice on Tuesday evenings).


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