Communication device for determining contextual information

A communication device for determining contextual information, comprising:

• a processing unit interconnected with a memory device, a communication interface and a display device, said processing unit enabled to:
• receive textual information from calendar data associated with a calendar event;
• process said textual information to automatically extract contextual data embedded in said textual information in response to said receiving;
• automatically retrieve supplementary contextual data based on said contextual data from a remote data source via said communication interface in response to said processing;
• and,
• automatically render said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said calendar event from which the textual information was received and said contextual data in response to receiving said supplementary contextual data;
• and
• determine a time for automatically rendering said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said contextual data, using said supplementary context data.

A non-transitory computer program product, comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for determining contextual information at a communication device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device, a communication interface and a display device, said method comprising:

• receiving textual information from calendar data associated with a calendar event;
• processing said textual information to automatically extract contextual data embedded in said textual information in response to said receiving;
• automatically retrieving supplementary contextual data based on said contextual data from a remote data source via said communication interface in response to said processing;
• automatically rendering said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said calendar event from which the textual information was received and said contextual data in response to receiving said supplementary contextual data;
• and
• determining a time for automatically rendering said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said contextual data, using said supplementary context data.

A method for determining contextual information at a communication device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device, a communication interface and a display device, said method comprising:

• receiving, at said processing unit, textual information from calendar data associated with a calendar event;
• processing, at said processing unit, said textual information to automatically extract contextual data embedded in said textual information in response to said receiving;
• automatically retrieving, by said processing unit, supplementary contextual data based on said contextual data from a remote data source via said communication interface in response to said processing by requesting said supplementary contextual data from a web service, said requesting comprising transmitting at least a portion of said contextual data in a request to said web service;
• automatically rendering said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said calendar event from which the textual information was received and said contextual data in response to receiving said supplementary contextual data;
• determining a time for automatically rendering said supplementary contextual data at said display device in association with said contextual data, using said supplementary context data;
• and
• dynamically repeating said retrieving and said rendering at least one of periodically and when a change in location of said communication device is determined.