Providing Event Notifications
Ravi Mandala · 2015
An event notification system can be used to provide notifications to a user related to an event. The system can provide these notifications before, during, and after the event. The event notification system analyzes an upcoming event from a user’s calendar to determine a context information associated with the event. As an example, this context information can include location of the place where the event is scheduled, people attending the event, duration of the event, agenda associated with the event etc. Based on the determined context associated with the event, the system determines specific tasks associated with the event. For example, these tasks can include providing the user with a map with the coordinates of the location of the event, names of people who have not yet RSVP'd to the event etc. Subsequently, the system provides notifications to the user for the specific tasks associated with the event. Problem Statement Current calendar applications provide basic notifications to users about events scheduled on the users’ calendars. The notifications simply notify the user of the event before the event is to occur. For example, a calendar application can provide a notification to the user about an upcoming event at a predefined time prior to the occurrence of the event. The calendar application might also provide a second notification at a second predefined time after the first notification. However, these calendar applications do not reminder the user of various tasks that