A SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR ADVANCED INFORMATION GATHERING UTILIZING WEB TECHNOLOGY

摘要

An agent based system assists in obtaining information from an article ofinterest and utilizes the information to take user directedaction based on the information from the target article. The system obtainsinput text in character form indicative of the target meeting froma calendar program that includes the time of the meeting. As the time of themeeting approaches, the calendar program is queried to obtainthe text of the target event and that information is utilized as input to theagent system. Then, the agent system parses the input meetingtext to extract its various components such as title, body, participants,location, time etc. The system also performs pattern matching toidentify particular appropriate information. This information is utilized toquery various sources of information on the web and obtainrelevant stories about the current meeting to send back to the calendaringsystem.