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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2005
David Vanden Heuvel, Kanata, CA;
Darrell Reginald May, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Thomas Hardy, Waterloo, CA;
Lap Luu, Markham, CA;
David Vanden Heuvel, Kanata, CA;
Darrell Reginald May, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Thomas Hardy, Waterloo, CA;
Lap Luu, Markham, CA;
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
The application relates to the field of communications and more particularly to an apparatus and method of generating a new event from a document. In accordance with one aspect of the present application, recognized date/time references contained in a document allow a new event to be created. Such date/time references are automatically recognized and highlighted in the document. Selecting the highlighted information generates a menu selection, offering a user the ability to create a new event into which the date/time information will be inserted, along with other information extracted from the document. Specific date/time information in a document is simply correlated to a known date/time format in a lookup table, while relative terms like 'tomorrow', 'today' or days of the week (ie. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.) are recognized by a date/time detector module and translated into a specific date/time. Using an embodiment of the present application, a new event can be readily generated.