Appointment period calendar and reminder

• US 20020114220A1
• Filed: 02/12/2002
• Published: 08/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cristine Cassandra Cunningham
• Original Assignee: Cristine Cassandra Cunningham
• Inventors: Cunningham, Cristine Cassandra
• Application Number:
  US10/076,236
• Publication Number:
  US 20020114220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 368/28
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 5/042 Diaries; Memorandum calendars
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

This invention combines an appointment reminder with a novel calendar period. The portion of the normal calendar printed would always start with the month or week in which businesses distribute them to customers. The total period shown by the calendar will be one week to one month more than the period generally recommended for repetition of the service provided and will vary with the type of business giving them to customers. Space would be provided for printing of the contact and other data of such companies and for notation of the date and time of the next appointment. Space could also be provided for advertisements by other businesses. Magnetic devices could be adhesively attached to the material on which such novel calendar and appointment reminder was imprinted to enable removable attachment thereof to items containing ferrous materials.

Claims

1. A new use of the normal printed calendar currently in common use in the United States and Europe by limiting the period reflected to one herein sometimes called the “

normal appointment period ”

which “

normal appointment period”

always starts with a period selected from a category which includes a day, a week, and a month, which selected starting period is the same as the period in which the printed material containing same is to be distributed, and which “

appointment period”

continues to the end of a calendar period which varies according to the practices of the applicable industry regarding the time commonly recommended for providing like services on a periodic basis, going into the next calendar year if the total period to be reflected, being a maximum of thirteen months and as little as three weeks as measured from the commencement date of the calendar period used, extends into the subsequent calendar year. Any printed calendar depicting any such limited “

appointment period”

is sometimes termed an “

Appointment Period Calendar”

herein.

2. A printed appointment reminder incorporating an appropriate “

Appointment Period Calendar”

, called an “

Appointment Period Calendar and Reminder”

herein and composed of;

a) a sheet which has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a thickness which may vary but is commonly anticipated as being less than one quarter of an inch and which sheet is made of a material that is capable of and is often used for the purposes of printing information thereon, e.g. paper.

b) Space on the top surface for informational data respecting the entity giving said appointment reminder to a customer including but not limited to the name, address, and telephone number thereof.

c) Space on the top surface for inserting the date and time of the next appointment for a service to be provided to the customer receiving the said appointment reminder by the said entity giving said appointment reminder to a customer.

d) Space on the top and on the bottom surface for advertising to be imprinted thereon

e) Space for imprinting on the said top surface of a “

normal appointment period”

as described in claim 1 above. The novel calendar period depicted may sometime herein be termed an “

Appointment Period Calendar” and

will always commence with the current month or week in which the appointment reminder containing it is to be distributed, and terminate no more than a month after a period which includes the date commonly set in the particular type of business distributing such appointment reminder for the next appointment whether that period extends into the next calendar year or not. Included on any portion of the same area provided for such “

Appointment Period Calendar”

, e.g. in one or more of the date blocks common to calendars may be places for printing information such as, for example and not by way of limitation;

(i) reminding the user to contact the service provider about an appointment;

(ii) suggesting use of products of the advertiser.

3. The appointment reminder described in claim 2., excepting all the matter set out in 2. e) and substituting therefore

f) space on the said top surface for affixing thereto by adhesion or other means such as stapling of a number of sheets each with a top surface, a bottom surface and an edge equal to the thickness thereof and which collectively have space for imprinting on the top surfaces thereof of a “

normal appointment period”

as described in claim 1 above. The novel calendar period depicted may sometime herein be termed a “

Appointment Period Calendar” and

will commence with the current month or week in which the appointment reminder containing it is distributed, and terminate no more than a month after a period which includes the date commonly set in the particular type of business distributing such appointment reminder for the next appointment whether that period extends into the next calendar year or not. Included on any portion of the same area provided for such “

Appointment Period Calendar”

, e.g. in one or more of the date blocks common to calendars, may be places for printing information such as, for example and not by way of limitation;

(i) reminding the user to contact the service provider about an appointment;

(ii) suggesting use of products of the advertiser. Said sheets will be placed in calendar date order and padded by some means common in the print industry, e.g. glue or stitching . Each said sheet will have space on the top surface thereof for one or more days of the appropriate novel calendar period and on the top and bottom surface thereof for advertising information and other indicia as may be desired.

4. The appointment reminder as described in claim 2 further characterized by providing spaces on the said back surface for one or a plurality of flexible magnetic devices of one or more geometric shapes to be affixed thereto by an adhesive either pre-applied to the magnetic material or applied at some time subsequent to the printing of the pertinent data upon the first and second surfaces of a selected number of such appointment reminders with the total surface area of that side of such magnetic devices as is to be adhesively attached to the appointment reminder not exceeding the surface area to which same are to be attached.

5. The appointment reminder as described in claim 3 further characterized by providing spaces on the said back surface for one or a plurality of flexible magnetic devices of one or more geometric shapes to be affixed thereto by an adhesive either pre-applied to the magnetic material or applied at some time subsequent to the printing of the pertinent data upon the first and second surfaces of a selected number of such surfaces with the total surface area of that side of such magnetic devices as is to be adhesively attached to the appointment reminder not exceeding the surface area to which same are attached.