Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

• Main Authors: Faoro Michael Anthony, Feliberti Vanessa, Varo Gustavo, Brough Andrew Winslow, Cook Jason Andrew, Tan Yeelin, Benzatti Danilo L, Seetharaman Shivakumar, Bolles Gregory A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.02.2017
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.