FR2915596A1 - METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INTEGRATING IN A PIM MANAGER AT LEAST ONE INFORMATION RELATED TO AN EVENT AGENDA - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for automatically integrating into a personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager, said method providing: - to establish a profile of the user of the manager by analyzing information contained in said manager - to establish a combination between this profile and information contained in the planned event - to require, in at least one database, information according to the set combination; information found as related information of the scheduled event.

Description

The invention relates to a method for automatically integrating into a

  personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager, and this according to a profile of the user. The invention also relates to an application for automatically integrating in a personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager. Users of computer terminals conventionally use a PIM manager (Persona; Information Manager, or personal information manager) to organize their activities using the electronic calendar function that said manager integrates in a user-friendly manner. When these users wish to obtain information corresponding to their personal tastes and / or the activities they wish to carry out, they must proceed to a voluntary approach of consulting databases, in particular on the Internet. In addition, some Internet sites offer PIM manager update services by integrating into these PIM managers information relating to a defined domain (for example, the concert dates of a specific group). The shortcoming of this service lies in the fact that the PIM manager is completed only by a specific request from the user and is only within the limit of this particular request, since no related information is integrated into the service. the electronic agenda. The user who wishes to obtain other information must make a special request to this service or carry out a search on his own initiative. At the same time, companies wishing to communicate about their activities, products and / or services send information and publicity information to current or potential customers. To do this, these companies must set up databases of contact persons on the basis of approximate and / or limited criteria.

  These companies, which do not have access to users' personal information such as those included in their PIM managers, can not therefore be in optimal adequacy with the personal tastes and activities of these users.

  Thus, there is no solution allowing users as well as businesses to use PIM managers to receive in a user-friendly and dynamic general or commercial information in line with their interests. The object of the invention is to overcome the problems of the prior art by proposing a method for automatically integrating into at least one personal information manager at least one piece of information related to an event arranged in said manager.

  For this purpose, and according to a first aspect, the invention proposes a method for automatically integrating into a personal information manager at least one piece of information related to an event arranged in said manager, said method providing for: establishing a profile of the user of the manager by analyzing information contained in said manager; to establish a combination between this profile and information contained in the scheduled event; To require, in at least one database, information according to the combination established; to integrate the information found as related information of the scheduled event.

  According to a second aspect, the invention proposes an application for integrating automatically in a personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager, said application comprising: means for establishing a profile of the manager's user by analyzing information contained in said manager; means for requesting, in at least one database, information according to the combination established; 10 means for integrating the information found as related information of the event arranged.

  Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent in the description which follows. The invention relates to a method for automatically integrating in a personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager. Integration into the manager can be done either directly or through a module communicating with the manager.

  In a PIM manager, the scheduled events are typically represented in a calendar indicating a set of textual information relating to said event. Therefore, the PIM manager includes information about the activities, both personal and professional, that the user has arranged in said PIM manager, and therefore for which the user has an interest.

  According to the method, the information relating to past events that are arranged in the P1M manager is analyzed in order to determine the user's interests and thus create his profile (so-called profiling step in English).

  This profile is automatically updated periodically in relation to the textual information of events arranged in the past. Thus, by analyzing past events, the profile remains dynamic and in line with the new elements that the user has been able to integrate into his PIM manager.

  In a conventional manner, the user organizes in his PIM manager a present or future event. The method provides for a combination to be established between the user's profile and the information elements contained in the scheduled event. The crossing of these data aims to find information related to these different elements, information of interest to the user in relation to the event planned while corresponding to its general tastes.

  The combination provides a result that combines these different elements. A request is then transmitted to an external database, in particular available via the Internet, in order to obtain information relating to at least one event corresponding to the result of the combination.

  Thus, for example, if the planned event is a planned trip to Italy and the user's profile indicates that the user likes to visit museums, the related event detected by the database, following the request, could to be the references of an exhibition on Italy.

  Information relating to the related event obtained at the database level is transmitted to the PIM manager. This information is integrated into the PIM so as to appear automatically within a window of said PIM manager. Thus, the user has an automatically completed PIM manager and can view on the corresponding date the event related to the event arranged.

  Regarding the application according to the invention, it may include means allowing the user to accept or refuse the implementation of the method to make suggestions in his manager.

Claims (9)

  A method for automatically integrating into at least one personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager, said method comprising: establishing a profile of the manager's user by analyzing information contained in said manager manager; to establish a combination between this profile and information contained in the planned event; to request, in at least one database, information according to the established combination; - to integrate the information found as related information of the planned event. 15   2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information to establish the profile of the user is textual information relating to both personal and professional activities. 20   The method of claim 2, wherein the textual information relates to events arranged in the past to establish a general profile of said user.   4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the established profile is updated periodically in order to obtain a dynamic profile in adequacy with the events integrated by the user in the manager.   The method of claim 1 to 4, wherein the combining is performed by cross-referencing data of the profile with information contained in the scheduled event.   6. Method according to claim 1 to 5, wherein the agtened event is a present or future event integrated in the manager by the user.   7. The method of claim 1 to 6, wherein the request is transmitted to an external database to obtain at least one event corresponding to the result of the combination.   8. The method of claim 7, wherein the event obtained is transmitted to the manager, said event appearing in a window of the manager as related information of the event arranged.   9. Application for automatically integrating into a personal information manager at least one information related to an event arranged in said manager, said application comprising: means for establishing a profile of the user of the manager by analyzing information contained therein in said manager; Means for requesting, in at least one database, information as a function of the established combination; means for integrating the information found as related information of the scheduled event.