Context-Based Action Recommendations Based on an Incoming Communication

An electronic device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable storage devices comprising processor executable instructions which, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, enable the electronic device to perform operations comprising:
• collecting context information associated with user interactions with the electronic device using a context engine module to generate user context information that identifies items of interest;
• receiving an incoming communication from an external computing device;
• identifying one or more characteristics associated with the incoming communication by analyzing content included in the incoming communication;
• analyzing the user context information using the one or more characteristics based on the content and one or more data mining algorithms to correlate at least some user context information of the user context information with the one or more characteristics effective to generate a context-based action recommendation that correlates at least two unrelated items of the items of interest;
• determining the electronic device is operating with an audio control mode enabled;
• audibly providing the context-based action recommendation;
• receiving audio input to perform one or more actions in response to the context-based action recommendation;
• and
• performing the one or more actions.

A device comprising:

• a network interface implemented for communication in one or more networks;
• and
• a memory and processor system to implement a context engine module, a recommendation generation module, and a notification module that enable the device to perform operations comprising:
• collecting context information associated with user interactions with the device to generate user context information that identifies items of interest;
• receiving, over the network interface, an incoming communication from an external computing device that is directed to a first application;
• identifying one or more characteristics associated with the incoming communication by analyzing content included in the incoming communication;
• analyzing the user context information using the one or more characteristics based on the content and one or more data mining algorithms to correlate the one or more characteristics to at least some of the user context information effective to generate an action recommendation that correlates at least two unrelated items of the items of interest and is associated with invoking a second application that is unrelated to the first application;
• determining the device is operating with an audio control mode enabled;
• audibly providing the action recommendation;
• receiving input to perform the action recommendation;
• and
• performing the action recommendation by invoking the second application.