Personal adaptive scheduling system and associated methods
First Claim
1. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodying a computer program for forecasting a personal schedule;
- the computer program product comprising;
a Schedule Editor Subsystem;
a Schedule Analysis Subsystem; and
a Report Generation Subsystem;
wherein the Schedule Editor Subsystem is configured to receive, via a computer user interface, time management information including effort data, work event data, and time span data;
wherein the Schedule Analysis Subsystem is configured to calculate, using the time management information, an effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart for forecastinq effort of a resource, and characterized bya plurality of work intervals, each associated with the time span data, and each comprising a start time and an end time, and each having an individually sizeable time extent that is permitted, by the Schedule Analysis Subsystem, to differ from that of at least one other of the plurality of work intervals;
a timeline comprising the plurality of work intervals and excluding at least one interval of time between at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of work intervals; and
a plurality of activities to be performed by the resource, each of the plurality of activities being associated with the work event data, and each comprising at least one activity bar segment, wherein each of the plurality of activity bar segments is characterized by a respective temporal extent positionable within at least one of the work intervals in the timeline, such that a position and extent of the at least one activity bar segment corresponding to an activity of the plurality of activities indicate when effort is forecasted to be focused on the activity; and
wherein the Report Generation Subsystem is configured to display via a computer graphical display, the effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart.
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Abstract
System and associated methods for calculating and displaying time management objects in the form of an effort-scaled, Gantt-style bar chart characterized by a series of flexible, time-zone-specific work intervals representing time spans within which effort may be focused on work events. Activity bar segments representing certain work events comprise temporal (e.g., horizontal) extents representing time potentially available for expending effort. Display features include sequential, cascading arrangement of activity bar segments in the chart, preserved by automatically preventing temporal overlapping of activity bar segments and by automatically resequencing and rescheduling activity bar segments in the chart (from earlier to later) when the activities'"'"' priorities (from top to bottom in the To Do list) are changed. Display features further include the ongoing calculation and application of an adjustment experience factor and/or interruption experience factor when scheduling future activities.
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1. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodying a computer program for forecasting a personal schedule;
- the computer program product comprising;
a Schedule Editor Subsystem; a Schedule Analysis Subsystem; and a Report Generation Subsystem; wherein the Schedule Editor Subsystem is configured to receive, via a computer user interface, time management information including effort data, work event data, and time span data; wherein the Schedule Analysis Subsystem is configured to calculate, using the time management information, an effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart for forecastinq effort of a resource, and characterized by a plurality of work intervals, each associated with the time span data, and each comprising a start time and an end time, and each having an individually sizeable time extent that is permitted, by the Schedule Analysis Subsystem, to differ from that of at least one other of the plurality of work intervals; a timeline comprising the plurality of work intervals and excluding at least one interval of time between at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of work intervals; and a plurality of activities to be performed by the resource, each of the plurality of activities being associated with the work event data, and each comprising at least one activity bar segment, wherein each of the plurality of activity bar segments is characterized by a respective temporal extent positionable within at least one of the work intervals in the timeline, such that a position and extent of the at least one activity bar segment corresponding to an activity of the plurality of activities indicate when effort is forecasted to be focused on the activity; and wherein the Report Generation Subsystem is configured to display via a computer graphical display, the effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- the computer program product comprising;
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20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodying a computer program to execute a method for forecastinq a personal schedule;
- the method comprising;
receiving, via a computer user interface, time management information including effort data, work event data, and time span data; calculating, using the time management information, an effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart for forecastinq effort of a resource, and characterized by a plurality of work intervals, each associated with the time span data, and each comprising a start time and an end time, and each having an individually sizeable time extent that is permitted to differ from that of at least one other of the plurality of work intervals; a timeline comprising the plurality of work intervals and excluding at least one interval of time between at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of work intervals; and a plurality of activities to be performed by the resource, each of the plurality of activities being associated with the work event data, and each comprising at least one activity bar segment, wherein each of the plurality of activity bar segments is characterized by a respective temporal extent positionable within at least one of the work intervals in the timeline, such that a position and extent of the at least one activity bar segment corresponding to an activity of the plurality of activities indicate when effort is forecasted to be focused on the activity; and displaying the effort-scaled Gantt-style bar chart on a computer graphical display. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
- the method comprising;
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