Patent ID: 8655895

Claim:
An event providing apparatus for use in a network communications system, said apparatus comprising: a storage device for storing information; a processor in communication with said storage device for receiving said information, the processor configured to: detect a condition that at least a portion of said information could be mapped to an event; identify date and time entries in said information; and generate a hyperlink to open an application capable of creating an event for each of said identified date and time entries, the date and time being provided to the application wherein the event can be generated in the application directly from the information; a display for displaying the time and date in the form of the hyperlink, the display further for automatically providing a user prompt related to said event in response to selection of the hyperlink; wherein the application is invoked in response to a user interaction with said user prompt to receive details of a new event based on the hyperlink, and wherein the processor is further configured to, when said information is an email message: identify a thread in said email message; detect that a defined threshold is reached or exceeded in the email message; and when said defined threshold is reached or exceeded, prompt a user to create said new event.