US 9,871,883 B2Granted

Opportunity events

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsDenis Possing, Gail Giacobbe, Jane Kim, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Bojana Ostojic

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Abstract

The description relates to opportunity events. One example can filter events based upon at least one parameter from a profile of a user. The filtering can produce potential opportunity events for the user. The example can compare the potential opportunity events to the user profile utilizing a similarity threshold such that the potential opportunity events that satisfy the similarity threshold are considered opportunity events. The example can rank the opportunity events by confidence level of matching the user profile. The example can also automatically populate high ranking individual opportunity events onto a calendar of the user. The example can further notify the user about the automatically populating.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

using location tracking data obtained from a personal device of a user, identifying a particular type of public event that the user has previously physically attended;
based at least on the user's previous physical attendance at the particular type of public event, inferring a personal interest of the user in the particular type of public event;
updating a user profile of the user to indicate that the user has the personal interest in the particular type of public event;
comparing the user profile to upcoming events to identify potential opportunity events that match the personal interest of the user;
comparing the potential opportunity events to the user profile utilizing a similarity threshold and designating certain potential opportunity events that satisfy the similarity threshold as opportunity events;
ranking the opportunity events using the user profile;
based at least on the ranking, identifying individual opportunity events that the user is likely interested in attending at individual designated locations and individual designated future times;
automatically populating the individual opportunity events onto a calendar of the user, the individual opportunity events including at least one public event of the particular type that the location tracking data indicates the user has previously physically attended;
and
updating the user profile to indicate whether the user physically attends the individual opportunity events.

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A system, comprising:

a processor;
and
storage having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
using location tracking data obtained from a personal device of a user, identify a particular type of event that the user has previously physically attended;
based at least on the user's previous physical attendance at the particular type of event, infer a personal interest of the user in the particular type of event;
update a user profile of the user to indicate that the user has the personal interest in the particular type of event;
compare the user profile to upcoming events to identify potential opportunity events that match the personal interest of the user;
perform a comparison of the potential opportunity events to the user profile and, based at least on the comparison, designate certain potential opportunity events as opportunity events;
identify individual opportunity events that the user is likely interested in attending at individual designated locations and individual designated future times;
automatically populate the individual opportunity events onto a calendar of the user, the individual opportunity events including at least one event of the particular type that the location tracking data indicates the user has previously physically attended;
and
update the user profile to indicate whether the user physically attends the individual opportunity events.

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A hardware computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising:

obtaining location tracking data identifying a user location associated with a user, the location tracking data being provided by a mobile device of the user;
based at least on the location tracking data, identifying a particular type of public event that the user has previously physically attended;
based at least on the user's previous physical attendance at the particular type of event, inferring a personal interest of the user in the particular type of event;
updating a user profile of the user to indicate that the user has the personal interest in the particular type of event;
comparing the updated user profile to upcoming events to identify potential opportunity events that match the personal interest of the user;
performing a comparison of the potential opportunity events to the user profile and, based at least on the comparison, designating certain potential opportunity events as opportunity events;
identifying individual opportunity events that the user is likely interested in attending at individual designated locations and individual designated future times;
and
automatically populating the individual opportunity events onto an electronic calendar of the user, the individual opportunity events including at least one event of the particular type that the location tracking data indicates the user has previously physically attended;
and
updating the user profile to indicate whether the user physically attends the individual opportunity events.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.