CN113011841A

CN113011841A - Method and device for creating task, electronic equipment and storage medium

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Publication number: CN113011841A
Application number: CN202110278226.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李兴彪; 董沛果; 丁美元; 胡丽娜; 赵慧斌
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-03-15
Filing date: 2021-03-15
Publication date: 2021-06-22

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a method for creating tasks, relates to the technical field of computers, and particularly relates to the technical field of semantic analysis. The specific implementation scheme is as follows: in response to identifying the task intent information from the instant message, determining task participants and a task expectation period based on the task intent information; determining an idle period of a task participant; determining a task time period according to a task expected time period and an idle time period; and creating the target task according to the determined task participants and the task time interval. The disclosure also discloses a device for creating tasks, an electronic device and a storage medium.

Description

Method and device for creating task, electronic equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of computer technology, and more particularly, to semantic analysis techniques. More particularly, the present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium for creating a task.

Background

With the development of network technology, tasks in various forms are more and more widely established in the scenes of life, work, learning and the like of people. For example, to create a conference task in an office scene, the conference organizer needs to manually inquire and record the idle time of each participant before the conference starts, and then repeatedly communicate and confirm with each participant, so that much time and energy are consumed for the conference organizer in order to organize a conference.

Disclosure of Invention

The disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for creating a task.

According to a first aspect, there is provided a method of creating a task, comprising: in response to identifying the task intent information from the instant message, determining task participants and a task expectation period based on the task intent information; determining an idle period of a task participant; determining a task time period according to a task expected time period and an idle time period; and creating the target task according to the determined task participants and the task time interval.

According to a second aspect, there is provided an apparatus for creating a task, comprising: an intent recognition module configured to determine task participants and a task expectation period from the task intent information in response to recognizing the task intent information from the instant message; a first determination module configured to determine an idle period of a task participant; a second determination module configured to determine a task period from a task expected period and an idle period; and a task creation module configured to create a target task according to the determined task participants and task periods.

According to a third aspect, there is provided an electronic device comprising: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform a method provided in accordance with the present disclosure.

According to a fourth aspect, there is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions for causing a computer to perform a method provided in accordance with the present disclosure.

According to a fifth aspect, a computer program product is provided, comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements a method provided according to the present disclosure.

It should be understood that the statements in this section do not necessarily identify key or critical features of the embodiments of the present disclosure, nor do they limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description.

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FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a method of creating tasks according to one embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an apparatus to create tasks according to one embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an electronic device of a method of creating tasks according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which various details of the embodiments of the disclosure are included to assist understanding, and which are to be considered as merely exemplary. Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. Also, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted in the following description for clarity and conciseness.

In addition to handling their own personal transactions, the most important team collaboration transactions in an office scenario typically require multiple users to meet together to complete a decision. Thus, the meeting becomes an essential part of the staff work. In the related technology, functions of appointment meeting, due reminding and the like are provided by a plurality of office collaboration software aiming at the scene, the users are assisted to complete own schedule planning, and the meeting determined by early-stage communication can be used as a task and synchronized to all participants, so that the condition that only oral expression is provided, but appointment forgetting is carried out due to busy work is avoided.

In the process of implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure, the inventor finds that some existing office collaboration software includes an independent schedule function for creating a meeting, and for a scene of reserving the meeting, it is necessary for a user to communicate with participants online at an earlier stage or through instant messaging software, and switch to the schedule function after the communication is confirmed, click on a space of a calendar grid displayed by the schedule function to create a quick creation form, or click on a creation button to create a complete form, and then fill in corresponding information such as a subject, time, participant, location, and the like, so as to create the meeting. This way the user is out of the use scenario, increasing the cost of the switch. And when a conference is created, the results (information such as time, place, participants and the like) just communicated need to be filled into the conference form one by one, and the filling work of repeated information is increased.

And some office cooperative software can provide a group member busy state checking function in the information interaction window, so that when a user needs to reserve a conference in a group chat scene, the user can check the busy condition of participants, the cost of inquiring idle time by the user is reduced, the information interaction window and an interface for creating a conference form are connected in series, and the user skip is reduced. However, this method has the problem that after checking the busy status, the called form is still a blank form, and the user needs to manually fill in again, select the information of the participants, and the like. And the information interaction window and the interface for creating the conference form are displayed in an overlapping mode, so that the user can be lost.

And some office cooperative software can provide a creation entrance in an information interaction window toolbar, and the mode can meet the requirement that a user quickly calls a blank form for creating a conference through the toolbar after communicating in the information interaction window and confirming the conference information, so that the user is prevented from switching scenes, and the conference creation is completed in a chat scene. However, the form called by the method is still blank, and the user is still required to fill in information such as titles, participants, time and the like, so that the scene is split.

FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a method of creating a task according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 1, the method 100 of creating a task may include operations S110 to S140.

In operation S110, in response to the task intention information being identified from the instant message, a task participant and a task expectation period are determined according to the task intention information.

The instant message can be a message in an information interaction window of the collaborative office software client, and the collaborative office software can provide an instant communication function, a task creation function, a calendar function and the like. The instant message can be a message generated in a group information interaction window, and can also be a message generated in an information interaction window communicated by a single person.

In the case of generating an instant message in an information interaction window, whether the instant message contains task intention information or not can be identified through semantic analysis, and specifically, the instant message can be semantically identified by using a semantic analysis model based on a neural network. If the instant message includes task intention information, it may be determined that the user issuing the instant message intends to create a task, and the user issuing the instant message may act as a task organizer. The task intention information may include time information from which a task expectation period, i.e., a task execution period desired by the task organizer, may be determined and user identification information. Task participants may be determined from the user identification information, for example, task participants may include task organizers and users indicated by the user identification.

For example, Wang II inputs an instant message "@ Zhang three @ Li four in a group information interaction window, and starts an interactive review meeting at three o 'clock today afternoon, semantic analysis is performed on the instant message to obtain that the time information in the task intention information is" three o' clock today afternoon ", and the user identification information is" Zhang three "and" Li four ", so that the intention of Wang II can be determined to be to create a task. The expected period of the task may be determined based on the time information "three points in the afternoon of today", for example, three points in the afternoon of today is taken as the task start time, and the time after the task start time is extended by a preset period (e.g., 1 hour) (four points in the afternoon of today) is automatically determined as the task end time, which may also be selected by the user. And determining that the task participants comprise Zhang III and Lile IV besides the Wang II according to the user identification information of Zhang III and Lile IV.

In operation S120, an idle period of the task participant is determined.

Task participants may include task organizers (e.g., wang two) and participants determined from user identifications in instant messages (e.g., zhang three and lie four). Each task participant can use the cooperative office software to create own daily tasks in advance, and a schedule table is generated, wherein the schedule table records the time intervals when the user has tasks and the time intervals when the user is idle. After determining the task participants and the task expectation period according to the task intention information, a schedule of each task participant may be obtained, and the idle period of each task participant may be determined.

For example, the schedule of wang determines that the idle periods of wang are three to five and six to eight hours in the afternoon of today, the schedule of zhang determines that the idle periods of zhang is two to five and six and half to eight hours in the afternoon of today, the schedule of lie four is four to six and half to eight hours in the afternoon of today, and so on. It can be determined that the periods during which wang two, zhang three and lie four are idle are four to five and six and half to eight hours in the afternoon today.

In operation S130, a task period is determined according to a task expectation period and an idle period.

The final task period may be determined according to the task expectation period and the idle period of each participant. For example, if the expected period of the task is three to four hours in the afternoon of today, and if the periods in which all participants are idle are four to five hours and six to half to eight hours in the afternoon of today, the periods in which all participants are idle (four to five hours, six to half to seven hours in the afternoon of today) may be recommended to the task participants as candidate periods, so that the task participants select one of the candidate periods as the final task period. As another example, the mission expectation period is three to four points in the afternoon today, and if the periods during which all participants are idle include three to four points in the afternoon, the three to four point in the afternoon period may be directly taken as the final mission period.

In operation S140, a target task is created according to the determined task participants and task periods.

A task form may be generated based on the determined task participants and task periods, and the task form may be presented to a task organizer in the form of a floating box in an information interaction window. The task form may contain the determined task period, such as three to four points in the afternoon today, and may also include task participants, such as wang two, zhang three, and lie four. The task organizer can click and send the task form to the group information interaction window or to the task participant, and the task participant can choose whether to accept the task.

The embodiment of the disclosure identifies the task intention information from the instant message, determines the idle time period of the task participant, automatically creates the task, reduces the workload of manually filling the task information and the time cost caused by multiple rounds of inquiry of the idle time period, completes the instant communication and the task creation in one scene, and reduces the switching cost of the user.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, in a scene of performing instant messaging and creating a task in an information interaction window of a user group, if a plurality of task participants are determined, an intersection of idle periods of the plurality of task participants can be determined as a common idle period of the plurality of task participants, and a final task period is determined according to a task expected period and the common idle period. In the process of determining the final task period according to the task expectation period and the common idle period, there are cases where there is overlap or no overlap between the task expectation period and the common idle period, and a detailed description is given below for each case.

For the case that the task expectation period and the common idle period overlap, if the common idle period includes the task expectation period, which indicates that all conference participant task expectation periods are in an idle state, the task expectation period can be directly used as a final task period. For example, the common idle periods of the conference participants of wang two, zhang three and li four are three to five and six and half to eight in the afternoon of today, the determined task expectation periods are three to four in the afternoon of today, the common idle periods include the task expectation periods, which show that all the conference participants are in idle states in the task expectation periods, and the periods of three to four in the afternoon can be directly used as final task periods.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.

The schematic shown in fig. 2 may be an interface that creates a task form if all conference participants are idle for the task expectation period.

As shown in fig. 2, the interface includes a contacts box 201, a message input box 202, and a task form 203. The group C in the contact box 201 is performing instant communication, the wang di in the group C inputs an instant message "@ zhang @ zhe si" in the message input box 202, which starts an interactive review meeting at three points in the afternoon, semantically analyzes the instant message, recognizes that the task intention information includes "zhang san", "zhe si" and "three points in the afternoon today, and can determine that the intention of wang di is to create a task, the task participants include zhang di, zhang and zhe si, the start time of the task expectation period is three points in the afternoon today, and can automatically delay three points in the afternoon today by one hour, that is, four points in the afternoon today is used as the end time of the task expectation period, and the end time of the task expectation period can be filled in by the user. Determining that the common idle periods of the wang two, the zhang three and the lie four are from three to five and from six and a half to eight in afternoon of today, wherein the common idle periods comprise task expectation periods, namely, all the task expectation periods of the conference participants are in idle states, and directly taking the task expectation periods (from three to four in afternoon) as final task periods. The task event object, "interactive review meeting," may also be identified from the instant message as the task name. A task form 203 is created based on the task participants, the task period, and the task name. A task place checkbox may also be included in task form 203 for the user to add a task place.

An "invite" control may also be included in task form 203, and a task organizer clicking on the "invite" control may send the task form to a group information interaction window or a single information interaction window of task participants who may choose to accept or reject the task. If all task participants have accepted the task, a task schedule may be created for each task participant, i.e., a "mutual review meeting" to-do is added to each task participant's schedule.

The task participant may also suggest a new time, for example, task participant lie four may enter an instant message "i'm time is inconvenient and may not start one hour later" in the group information interaction window or the single information interaction window after receiving the task form, the intention that task participant lie four may be recognized through semantic recognition is to modify the task time, the task time in the task form may be modified to four to five pm, and other task participants are notified.

For the case that the task expectation period and the common idle period overlap, if the common idle period does not completely contain the task expectation period, that is, the common idle period partially overlaps with the task expectation period, it indicates that at least one conference participant is not in a state of being completely idle in the task expectation period, and the time of the at least one conference participant conflicts with the task expectation period. The common idle time period may be recommended to the task organizer and the task organizer may be presented with the conflicting meeting participants to enable the task organizer to choose whether to modify the meeting time. For example, the common idle periods of the conference participants of wang two, zhang three and lie four are three o ' clock to five o ' clock and six o ' clock to eight o ' clock today in the afternoon, the determined task expectation periods are three o ' clock to four o ' clock today in the afternoon, lie four is scheduled three o ' clock to three o ' clock and half o ' clock in the afternoon, it can be shown to the user that there is a conflict in lie four times, and the common idle periods (four o ' clock to five o ' clock, six o ' clock to seven o ' clock today in the afternoon) are used as candidate periods for the task organizer to.

For the case that the task expectation period and the common idle period do not overlap, it is stated that at least one conference participant is in a non-idle state in the task expectation period, and the time of the at least one conference participant conflicts with the task expectation period. The common idle time period can be recommended to the task organizer, and the task organizer can also be shown with the conference participants with conflicts, so that the task organizer can select whether to modify the conference time. For example, the common idle periods of the conference participants of wang two, zhang three and lie four are four to five and six and half to eight in the afternoon of today, the determined task expectation periods are three to four in the afternoon of today, lie four has a schedule of three to four in the afternoon, it can be shown to the user that there is a conflict in lie four times, and the common idle periods (four to five and six and half to seven and half in the afternoon of today) are taken as candidate periods for the task organizer to select.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

The schematic shown in fig. 3 may be an interface that creates a task form if the time of at least one conference participant conflicts with a task expectation period.

As shown in fig. 3, the interface includes a contacts box 301, a message entry box 302, and a task form 303. The group C in the contact box 301 is performing instant communication, the wang di in the group C inputs an instant message "@ zhang @ zhe si" in the message input box 302, which starts an interactive review meeting at three points in the afternoon, performs semantic analysis on the instant message, recognizes that the task intention information includes "zhang san", "zhe si", and "three points in the afternoon today", may determine that the intention of wang di is to create a task, that the task participants include zhang di, zhang and zhe si, and that the start time of the task expectation period is three points in the afternoon today, may automatically delay three points in the afternoon today by one hour, that is, four points in the afternoon today is used as the end time of the task expectation period, and may also determine the end time of the task expectation period by the user. Determining that the common idle periods of the Wang-II, the Zhang-III and the Li-IV are four to five and six and half to eight hours in the afternoon of today, and the Li-IV is scheduled from three to four hours in the afternoon, namely the Li-IV conflicts in time, wherein the common idle periods (four to five and six and half to seven and half hours in the afternoon of today) can be used as suggested new time. The task event object, "interactive review meeting," may also be identified from the instant message as the task name. Based on the task participants, the suggested new time, and the task name, a task form 303 is created. The task form 303 may also show information of "li si time conflicts" and may further include a task place selection box for the user to add a task place.

An "invite" control may also be included in task form 303, and a task organizer clicking on the "invite" control may send the task form to a group information interaction window or a single information interaction window of task participants, who may choose to accept or reject the task. If all task participants have accepted the task, a task schedule may be created for each task participant, i.e., a "mutual review meeting" to-do is added to each task participant's schedule. Likewise, task participants may also modify the meeting time by sending instant messages.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, in a scene of instant messaging and task creation in the single-person communicated information interaction window, for example, a first user sends an instant message to a second user, and if the instant message in the single-person information interaction window is identified to include task intention information through semantic analysis and the task intention information includes task ending time, it can be determined that the intention of the first user is to issue a task to the second user. The second user may be a task participant and the task expectation period may be determined based on the task end time. For example, if the first user sends an instant message "make a week report before six pm" to the second user, and it can be identified through semantic analysis that the task intention information includes a task end time "before six pm", it may be determined that the first user intends to issue a task to the second user, the end time of the task expected period is six pm, and the current time point may be used as the start time of the task expected period. The event object "delivery to the Weeking" may also be identified from the instant message, and the task name may be determined to be "submit to the Weeking". The idle period of the second user may be determined, and if the second user is scheduled five to six hours in the afternoon, the end time of the task expectation period may be advanced by one hour or advanced by one hour to determine a final task period. And generating a task form according to the task time interval and the task name.

Specifically, for a scene in which instant messaging is performed in an information interaction window for single-person communication and a task is created, when it is recognized that task intention information includes task end time, that is, when a sender of an instant message intends to issue a task to a receiver, only a task name and end time of a task expected period in the instant message may be extracted, and a task form may be created according to the task name and the end time of the task expected period.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating tasks according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

The schematic diagram shown in fig. 4 may be an interface for a first user to issue a task to a second user in a single-person communication scenario.

As shown in fig. 4, the interface may be an interface on the first user's client that includes a contacts box 401, a message entry box 402, and a tasks form 403. The current user is a first user, the first user performs instant communication with a user B (a second user) in the contact box 401, the first user inputs an instant message "recorded before six pm" in the message input box 402, performs semantic analysis on the instant message, recognizes that the task intention information includes a task end time "before six pm", may determine that the first user intends to issue a task to the second user, and recognizes that the instant message includes an event object "delivered week", and determines that the task name is "submitted week". A task form 403 is created from the task name and the task end time.

The task form 403 may further include a "send" control, the first user may send the task form to the client of the second user by clicking the "send" control, the client of the second user may generate a prompt message according to the task form to prompt the user whether to accept a task issued by the other party, and if the second user chooses to accept, the task schedule may be created, that is, a to-do item of "submit a weekly report" is added to the schedule of the second user.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a method of creating a task according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

The schematic shown in fig. 5 may be an interface for the second user to confirm the task of acceptance in the single person communication scenario.

As shown in fig. 5, the interface may be an interface on the second user's client that includes a contacts box 501, a message input box 502, and a prompt box 503. The current user is a second user, the second user performs instant messaging with a user F (first user) in the contact frame 501, the first user issues a task to the second user by creating a task list, a prompt box 503 for confirming acceptance of the task is displayed on a client interface of the second user, and the prompt box 503 contains prompt information "the other party creates a single-person schedule to you: submit weekly reports ", and task end time" 2021-01-2218: 00 and option boxes of 'accept' and 'reject', and the second user can click the 'accept' option box, and then can automatically create a task schedule for submitting the weekly reports, namely, a to-do item for submitting the weekly reports is added in the schedule of the second user.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an apparatus to create tasks according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 6, the apparatus for creating a task 600 may include an intention identifying module 601, a first determining module 602, a second determining module 603, and a task creating module 604.

The intent recognition module 601 is configured to determine task participants and task expectation periods from the task intent information in response to identifying the task intent information from the instant message.

The first determination module 602 is configured to determine an idle period of a task participant.

The second determination module 603 is configured to determine the task period from the task expectation period and the idle period.

The task creation module 604 is configured to create a target task based on the determined task participants and task periods.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in case that a plurality of task participants are determined, the second determining module 603 includes a first determining unit, a second determining unit, a generating unit, and a third determining unit.

The first determination unit is configured to determine an intersection of idle periods of the plurality of task participants as a common idle period of the plurality of task participants.

The second determination unit is configured to determine the task period based on the overlapping portion, in case the task expectation period at least partially overlaps the common idle period.

The generation unit is configured to generate the candidate period based on the common idle period without an overlap between the task expectation period and the common idle period.

The third determination unit is configured to determine the task period based on the candidate period according to an instruction from at least one task participant.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, the instant message is generated by information interaction between users in a user group, the task intention information includes time information and user identification information, and the intention identifying module 601 includes a fourth determining unit and a fifth determining unit.

The fourth determining unit is configured to determine the users sending the instant messages in the user group and the users indicated by the user identification information as task participants;

the fifth determination unit is configured to determine the task expectation period from the time information.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the instant message is an instant message sent by a first user to a second user, the task intention information includes time information, and the intention identifying module 601 includes a sixth determining unit and a seventh determining unit.

The sixth determination unit is configured to determine the task expectation period from the time information.

The seventh determining unit is configured to determine at least one of the first user and the second user as a task participant.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the task intention information further includes a task event object, and the apparatus 600 for creating a task further includes a third determination module configured to determine a task name according to the task event object.

The task creation module 604 is configured to create a target task based on the determined task participants, task periods, and task names.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the intent recognition module 601 is configured to recognize task intent information from instant messages by semantically analyzing the instant messages.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus 600 for creating a task further includes a prompt module and an execution module.

The prompt module is configured to send confirmation prompt information to the task participant prior to creating the target task.

The execution module is configured to perform operations to create a target task in response to a confirmation instruction from a task participant.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the target task is a meeting or a to-do.

The present disclosure also provides an electronic device, a readable storage medium, and a computer program product according to embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic block diagram of an example electronic device 700 that can be used to implement embodiments of the present disclosure. Electronic devices are intended to represent various forms of digital computers, such as laptops, desktops, workstations, personal digital assistants, servers, blade servers, mainframes, and other appropriate computers. The electronic device may also represent various forms of mobile devices, such as personal digital processing, cellular phones, smart phones, wearable devices, and other similar computing devices. The components shown herein, their connections and relationships, and their functions, are meant to be examples only, and are not meant to limit implementations of the disclosure described and/or claimed herein.

As shown in fig. 7, the device 700 comprises a computing unit 701, which may perform various suitable actions and processes according to a computer program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)702 or a computer program loaded from a storage unit 708 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 703. In the RAM 703, various programs and data required for the operation of the device 700 can also be stored. The computing unit 701, the ROM 702, and the RAM 703 are connected to each other by a bus 704. An input/output (I/O) interface 705 is also connected to bus 704.

Various components in the device 700 are connected to the I/O interface 705, including: an input unit 706 such as a keyboard, a mouse, or the like; an output unit 707 such as various types of displays, speakers, and the like; a storage unit 708 such as a magnetic disk, optical disk, or the like; and a communication unit 709 such as a network card, modem, wireless communication transceiver, etc. The communication unit 709 allows the device 700 to exchange information/data with other devices via a computer network, such as the internet, and/or various telecommunication networks.

Computing unit 701 may be a variety of general purpose and/or special purpose processing components with processing and computing capabilities. Some examples of the computing unit 701 include, but are not limited to, a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), various specialized Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing chips, various computing units running machine learning model algorithms, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and any suitable processor, controller, microcontroller, and so forth. The computing unit 701 executes the respective methods and processes described above, such as the method of creating a task. For example, in some embodiments, the method of creating tasks may be implemented as a computer software program tangibly embodied on a machine-readable medium, such as storage unit 708. In some embodiments, part or all of a computer program may be loaded onto and/or installed onto device 700 via ROM 702 and/or communications unit 709. When the computer program is loaded into RAM 703 and executed by the computing unit 701, one or more steps of the method of creating tasks described above may be performed. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the computing unit 701 may be configured by any other suitable means (e.g., by means of firmware) to perform the method of creating tasks.

Various implementations of the systems and techniques described here above may be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, integrated circuitry, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), system on a chip (SOCs), load programmable logic devices (CPLDs), computer hardware, firmware, software, and/or combinations thereof. These various embodiments may include: implemented in one or more computer programs that are executable and/or interpretable on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor, which may be special or general purpose, receiving data and instructions from, and transmitting data and instructions to, a storage system, at least one input device, and at least one output device.

Program code for implementing the methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. These program codes may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program codes, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions/operations specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram to be performed. The program code may execute entirely on the machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.

In the context of this disclosure, a machine-readable medium may be a tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The machine-readable medium may be a machine-readable signal medium or a machine-readable storage medium. A machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of a machine-readable storage medium would include an electrical connection based on one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

To provide for interaction with a user, the systems and techniques described here can be implemented on a computer having: a display device (e.g., a CRT (cathode ray tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor) for displaying information to a user; and a keyboard and a pointing device (e.g., a mouse or a trackball) by which a user can provide input to the computer. Other kinds of devices may also be used to provide for interaction with a user; for example, feedback provided to the user can be any form of sensory feedback (e.g., visual feedback, auditory feedback, or tactile feedback); and input from the user may be received in any form, including acoustic, speech, or tactile input.

The systems and techniques described here can be implemented in a computing system that includes a back-end component (e.g., as a data server), or that includes a middleware component (e.g., an application server), or that includes a front-end component (e.g., a user computer having a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with an implementation of the systems and techniques described here), or any combination of such back-end, middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and the Internet.

The computer system may include clients and servers. A client and server are generally remote from each other and typically interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server arises by virtue of computer programs running on the respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other.

It should be understood that various forms of the flows shown above may be used, with steps reordered, added, or deleted. For example, the steps described in the present disclosure may be executed in parallel, sequentially, or in different orders, as long as the desired results of the technical solutions disclosed in the present disclosure can be achieved, and the present disclosure is not limited herein.

The above detailed description should not be construed as limiting the scope of the disclosure. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations and substitutions may be made in accordance with design requirements and other factors. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure should be included in the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method of creating a task, comprising:

in response to identifying the task intent information from the instant message, determining task participants and a task expectation period based on the task intent information;

determining an idle period for the task participant;

determining a task period according to a task expected period and the idle period; and

and creating the target task according to the determined task participants and the task time interval.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the event that a plurality of task participants are determined, said determining a task period from a task expectation period and the idle period comprises:

determining an intersection of idle periods of the plurality of task participants as a common idle period of the plurality of task participants;

in the event that the task expectation period at least partially overlaps the common idle period, determining a task period based on the overlapping portion.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

generating a candidate period based on the common idle period without overlap between the task expectation period and the common idle period;

the task period is determined based on the candidate period according to instructions from at least one task participant.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the instant message is an instant message generated by interaction between users in a user group, the task intention information comprises time information and user identification information, and the determining task participants and task expectation periods according to the task intention information comprises:

determining users sending the instant messages in a user group and users indicated by user identification information as task participants;

and determining the expected time period of the task according to the time information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the instant message is an instant message sent by a first user to a second user, the task intent information includes time information, and the determining task participants and task expectation periods from the task intent information includes:

determining a task expected time period according to the time information;

at least one of the first user and the second user is determined to be a task participant.

6. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the task intent information further includes a task event object, the method further comprising determining a task name from the task event object, the creating a target task comprising:

and creating the target task according to the determined task participants, the task time interval and the task name.

7. The method of any of claims 1-5, wherein the task intent information is identified from the instant message by semantically analyzing the instant message.

8. The method of any of claims 1-5, further comprising:

before creating a target task, sending confirmation prompt information to a task participant; and

and responding to confirmation instructions from task participants, and executing the operation of creating the target task.

9. The method of any of claims 1-5, wherein the target task is a meeting or a to-do.

10. An apparatus to create a task, comprising:

an intent recognition module configured to determine task participants and a task expectation period from the task intent information in response to recognizing the task intent information from the instant message;

a first determination module configured to determine an idle period of the task participant;

a second determination module configured to determine a task period from a task expected period and the idle period; and

a task creation module configured to create a target task according to the determined task participants and task periods.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1-9.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions for causing the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-9.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the method according to any one of claims 1-9.