Scheduling events from electronic messages

摘要

Scheduling an event on an electronic communications device configured for sending and receiving electronic messages over a communications network, including extracting information from an electronic message at the communications device; displaying on a display of the communications device an event scheduling interface for scheduling an event, the event scheduling interface having a plurality of input fields for receiving information about the event; and automatically populating at least one of the input fields in dependence on the extracted information.

主权项

1. A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising operations of:
presenting a first electronic message that contains a threaded message including contents of a second electronic message and a header portion for the second electronic message in a body of the first electronic message; during the presenting, receiving a selection for invoking a user interface for a calendar event; processing the body of the first electronic message to identify a date related to the calendar event, while ignoring any other date contained in the header portion of the second electronic message; displaying the user interface for the calendar event, the user interface configured with input fields to receive information about the calendar event, and populating, concurrently with the displaying operation, at least one of a day and a time associated with the identified date into an input field of the user interface.