Event extraction systems and methods

A method performed by a data processing system, comprising:

• receiving or sending, by the data processing system, a message to a remote system;
• storing a plurality of events in a database, the plurality of events each being extracted from a natural language description within the message at a time of extraction;
• displaying a calendar user interface of a calendar application, the calendar user interface including an add event command;
• receiving, at a current time, a selection of the add event command;
• in response to the selection and without additional user input, obtaining from the database, one or more suggested events from the plurality of events, in response to the time of extraction of each of the one or more suggested events being within a threshold period of time before the current time and ignoring remaining ones of the plurality of events in response to the time of extraction of each of the remaining ones not being within the threshold period of time before the current time;
• and
• displaying, in the calendar user interface, each of the one or more suggested events and not the remaining ones as an option to be added to the calendar application.

A data processing system comprising a processing device coupled to a non-transitory machine readable medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by the processing device, cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:

• receiving or sending, by the data processing system, a message to a remote system;
• storing a plurality of events in a database, the plurality of events each being extracted from a natural language description within the message at a time of extraction;
• displaying a calendar user interface of a calendar application, the calendar user interface including an add event command;
• receiving, at a current time, a selection of the add event command;
• in response to the selection and without additional user input, obtaining from the database, one or more suggested events from the plurality of events, in response to the time of extraction of each of the one or more suggested events being within a threshold period of time before the current time and ignoring remaining ones of the plurality of events in response to the time of extraction of each of the remaining ones not being within the threshold period of time before the current time;
• and
• displaying, in the calendar user interface, each of the one or more suggested events and not the remaining ones as an option to be added to the calendar application.