专利名称：A SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLE OF
MANUFACTURE FOR ADVANCEDINFORMATION GATHERING FORTARGETTED ACTIVITIES
发明人：BURKEY, Chad,HO, Denise申请号：EP99962752.4申请日：19991110公开号：EP1145155A2公开日：20011017
摘要：An agent based system assists in preparing an individual for an upcomingmeeting by helping him/her retrieve relevant information about the meeting from varioussources based on preexisting information in the system. The system obtains input text incharacter form indicative of the target meeting from a calendar program that includesthe time of the meeting. As the time of the meeting approaches, the calendar program isqueried to obtain the text of the target event and that information is utilized as input tothe agent system. Then, the agent system parses the input meeting text to extract itsvarious components such as title, body, participants, location, time etc. The system alsoperforms pattern matching to identify particular meeting fields in a meeting text. Thisinformation is utilized to query various sources of information on the web and obtainrelevant stories about the current meeting to send back to the calendaring system. Forexample, if an individual has a meeting with Netscape and Microsoft to talk about theirdisputes, the system obtains this initial information from the calendaring system. It willthen parse out the text to realize that the companies in the meeting are \"Netscape\" and
\"Microsoft\" and the topic is \"disputes\". It will then surf the web for relevant informationconcerning the topic. Thus, in accordance with an objective of the invention, the systemupdates the calendaring system and eventually the user with the best information it cangather to prepare for the target meeting. In accordance with a preferred embodiment,the information is stored in a file that is obtained via selection from a link imbedded inthe calendar system.
申请人：AC Properties B.V.
地址：Parkstraat 83 2514 JG 's-Gravenhage NL
国籍：NL
代理机构：McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell
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