Computer program comprising a plurality of calendars

• US 20040109025A1
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Published: 06/10/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Guiheneuf, Bertrand, Noyau, Eric, Hullot, Jean-Marie, Cerveau, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US10/453,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20040109025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

Methods, systems and machine readable media for operating a calendar in a data processing system. In one exemplary method, a calendar interface is displayed on a display device, wherein the calendar interface is capable of displaying calendar events for a user, and a control interface is displayed, which control interface allows the user to selectively display calendar events simultaneously from at least two calendars of the user in the calendar interface.

Claims

1. A computer program comprising a plurality of calendars and a user interface wherein the user interface provides an interface for two or more calendars.

2. A computer program as claimed in claim 1, in which said user interface comprises more than one window.

3. A computer program as claimed in claim 2, in which one of said windows comprises a primary date range.

4. A computer program as claimed in claim 3, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each day of a month.

5. A computer program as claimed in claim 3, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each day of a week.

6. A computer program as claimed in claim 3, in which said primary data range contains a data field for each month of a year.

7. A computer program as claimed in claim 3, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each of a plurality of hours of a selected day.

8. A computer program as claimed in claim 5, in which another of said windows comprises a subsidiary date range comprising at least one month and including a marker for indicating the selected day.

9. A computer program as claimed in claim 4, in which another of said windows comprises a second subsidiary date range comprising at least one week and including a secondary marker for indicating the selected day.

10. A computer program as claimed in claim 1, in which one of said calendars is selected as a most important calendar for a given user.

11. A computer program as claimed in any claim 10, further comprising an interrogator interface for adding, selecting, modifying and deleting an event in said most important calendar.

12. A computer program as claimed in claim 11, in which said interrogator interface also enables an event to be moved from one calendar to another.

13. A computer program as claimed in claim 11, in which said interrogator interface also enables a property to be assigned to an event or modified.

14. A computer program as claimed in claim 13, in which said property comprises the event appearing recurrently.

15. A computer program as claimed in claim 13, in which said property comprises an alarm.

16. A computer program as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a toggle for each calendar, for enabling events of a toggled calendar to be displayed or not displayed by the user interface and wherein the two or more calendars are for the same user.

17. A computer program as claimed in claim 1, in which said events are displayed as a 2-D shape at least approximately representing the duration specified.

18. A computer program as claimed in claim 17, in which events which overlap are distinguished from each other by a distinguishing feature.

19. A computer program as claimed in claim 18, in which said distinguishing feature comprises a different colour.

20. A computer program as claimed in claim 18, in which said distinguishing feature comprises a different 2-D shape only partially extending over the specified duration.

21. A computer program as claimed in claim 18, in which said distinguishing feature comprises one event being translucent such that the other overlapping event can be displayed therebehind.

22. A computer program as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a search interface for enabling a search across one or more calendars.

23. A computer program as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a task interface for enabling tasks to be entered on said most important calendar.

24. A method of operating a calendar system on a data processing system, said method comprising:

displaying a calendar interface which is capable of displaying calendar events for a user;

displaying a control interface which allows said user to selectively display calendar events from at least two calendars of said user in said calendar interface.

25. A method as in claim 24 wherein said control interface allows said user to display events from a first group of calendars and to not display events from a second group of calendars.

26. A method as in claim 25 wherein said control interface allows said user to select one calendar as a most important calendar.

27. A method as in claim 25 wherein events which overlap are distinguished from each other by a distinguishing feature.

28. A machine readable medium containing executable instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause said system to perform a method comprising:

displaying a calendar interface which is capable of displaying calendar events for a user;

displaying a control interface which allows said user to selectively display calendar events from at least two calendars of said user in said calendar interface.

29. A machine readable medium as in claim 28 wherein said control interface allows said user to display events from a first group of calendars and to not display events from a second group of calendars.

30. A machine readable medium as in claim 29 wherein said control interface allows said user to select one calendar as a most important calendar.

31. A machine readable medium as in claim 29 wherein events which overlap are distinguished from each other by a distinguishing feature.

32. An apparatus for operating a calendar, said apparatus comprising:

means for displaying a calendar interface which is capable of displaying calendar events for a user;

means for displaying a control interface which allows said user to selectively display calendar events from at least two calendars of said user in said calendar interface.

33. An apparatus as in claim 32 wherein said control interface allows said user to display events from a first group of calendars and to not display events from a second group of calendars.

34. An apparatus as in claim 33 wherein said control interface allows said user to select one calendar as a most important calendar.

35. An apparatus as in claim 33 wherein events which overlap are distinguished from each other by a distinguishing feature.