Method and apparatus for synchronizing electronic agendas

• US 20040098444A1
• Filed: 12/29/2003
• Published: 05/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Ivarsson, Carl-Johan, Bengtsson, Henrik
• Application Number:
  US10/250,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20040098444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

An information processing system comprises a synchronization engine (11) for synchronizing a first electronic agenda (7a) comprising non-text information with a second electronic agenda (7b) for storage of text information. The synchronization engine (11) is adapted to receive non-text information from the first agenda (7a), reproduce the non-text information and receive text information entered by a user, corresponding to said non-text information for storage in the second agenda (7b).

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising a synchronization engine (11) for synchronizing a first electronic agenda (7a) comprising non-text information with a second electronic agenda (7b) for storage of text information, characterized in that

the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to receive non-text information from the first agenda (7a), reproduce the non-text information and receive text information entered by a user, corresponding to said non-text information for storage in the second agenda (7b).

2. An information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to synchronize text information, whereby the text information in the first agenda (7a) corresponds to the text information in the second agenda (7b).

3. An information processing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least one of said electronic agendas (7ab) is located on an electronic PIM-device (1).

4. An information processing system according to claim 3, wherein the PIM-device is incorporated in a mobile communication device.

5. An information processing system according to any preceding claim, wherein the non-text information is digital sound signal data.

6. An information processing system according to any preceding claim, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to present the non-text information by a device operable to display visual data and/or to output audio data.

7. An information processing system according to any preceding claim, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to receive input text information via a keyboard (9).

19. A computer program element directly loadable into the internal memory of an electronic communication apparatus with digital computer capabilities, characterized by comprising software code portions for performing the steps of any of the claims 1 to 11 when said product is run on said apparatus.

20. A computer program product directly loadable into the internal memory of an electronic communication apparatus with digital computer capabilities, characterized by comprising software code portions for performing the steps of any of the claims 1 to 11 when said product is run on said apparatus.

8. A method for synchronizing a first electronic agenda (7a) comprising non-text information with a second electronic agenda (7b) for storage of text information, characterized by the further steps of:

receiving non-text information from the first agenda (7a) in the second agenda (7b), reproducing the non-text information, and

receiving text information entered by a user, corresponding to said non-text information for storage in the second agenda (7b).

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein at least one of said electronic agendas (7ab) is an electronic PIM-device (1).

10. A method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the non-text information comprises digital sound signal data.

11. A method according to claims 8 to 10, wherein the non-text information is presented by a device operable to display visual data and/or to output audio data.

12. A method according to claims 8 to 11, wherein the user inputs the text information by a keyboard (9).

13. A synchronization engine (11) for synchronizing a first electronic agenda (7a) comprising non-text information with a second electronic agenda (7b) for storage of text information, characterized in that

the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to receive non-text information from the first agenda (7a), reproduce the non-text information and receive text information entered by a user, corresponding to said non-text information for storage in the second agenda (7b).

14. A synchronization engine (11) according to claim 13, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to synchronize text information, whereby the text information in the first agenda (7a) corresponds to the text information in the second agenda (7b).

15. A synchronization engine (11) according to claim 13 or 14, wherein at least one of said electronic agendas (7ab) is an electronic PIM-device (1).

16. A synchronization engine (11) according to any of the claims 13 to 15, wherein the non-text information is digital sound signal data.

17. A synchronization engine (11) according to any of the claims 13 to 16, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to present the non-text information by a device operable to display visual data and/or to output audio data.

18. A synchronization engine (11) according to any of the claims 13 to 17, wherein the synchronization engine (11) is adapted to receive input text information via a keyboard (9).