Communication apparatus
CA 2296327 A1 · Owner: Birney, Alexander Philip · Inventors: Kaneen, Edward Noble; Birney, Alexander Philip
Overview
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The invention relates to a communication apparatus. Currently the Internet , provides an e-mail facility which enables natural language communication between many of the world's computer users. However the ability to operate , such a computer so as to interact automatically with an appointment file stored on another computer is limited. The invention overcomes this problem by providing a communication apparatus which is operable to extract appointment information (24) from a natural language e-mail message (22) and examines its user's schedule file (23) accordingly.
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- Filed July 24, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 24, 2018.
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