Vehicle-based methods and systems for managing personal information and events
Various embodiments may include a vehicle-based system and method for managing a user's personal information and events. A user's personal communications (such as verbal and non-verbal communications) may be monitored to identify one or more unscheduled personal events. A determination may be made whether the unscheduled personal events conflict with one or more previously scheduled personal events or personal events pending for scheduling. The scheduled personal events or pending personal events may be obtained from recorded conversations, emails, text messages, social networking messages, and the like. Based on the determination, one or more actions may be taken on the unscheduled personal events. A determination may also be made whether to add the contact with whom the user is having a personal communication to the user's address book based on whether a personal relationship exists with the contact.
1. A system comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive a digital communication including text in a body of the communication corresponding to a schedulable event;
identify the schedulable event in the text of the communication body, by comparison of words in the text to predefined words designated as identifying schedulable events;
query a user to determine if the schedulable event should be scheduled; and
responsive to user confirmation to the query, schedule the schedulable event.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital communication is a text message.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital communication is a social network posting.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital communication is an email.
5. A computer-implemented method comprising:
analyzing a digital communication to or from a user;
identifying, via a processor, text in a body text of the digital communication corresponding to a schedulable event, by comparison of words in the text to predefined words designated as identifying schedulable events;
determining if the schedulable event conflicts with already scheduled events in a user calendar; and
responsive to a determination that no conflict exists, scheduling schedulable event in the user calendar.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein identifying text corresponding to the schedulable event includes parsing the communication for a trigger predefined as indicating a schedulable event.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the trigger includes at least one of a predefined keyword, keyphrase, or abbreviation.
8. The method of claim 5 wherein the communication is a social networking message.
9. The method of claim 5 wherein the communication is an electronic mail or a text message.
10. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying, at a vehicle computer, text in a body of a received digital communication corresponding to a schedulable event, including text identifying an event location the identifying done by comparison of words in the text to predefined words designated as identifying schedulable events; and
scheduling the schedulable event in a user calendar, including adding the event location identified by the body text as a scheduled event location.