Device and a method for using an enhanced high priority calendar event

• US 20050177404A1
• Filed: 02/10/2004
• Published: 08/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Hyttinen, Tarmo
• Application Number:
  US10/775,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20050177404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

The invention relates to an enhanced high priority event of a calendar application. The invention also relates to a method for using an enhanced high priority calendar event. A device for handling a calendar application comprises means for browsing a calendar application; means for receiving a high priority event; means for searching possible overlapping events in a calendar application, as a response to receiving a high priority event; means for presenting found one or more overlapping events; means for receiving instructions for processing certain one or more presented overlapping events; and means for processing overlapping events according to received instructions.

Claims

1. A device for handling a calendar application, comprising

means for browsing a calendar application,

means for receiving a high priority event to be added to a calendar application,

means for searching possible overlapping events in a calendar application as a response to receiving a high priority event,

means for presenting found one or more overlapping events,

means for receiving instructions for processing certain one or more presented overlapping events, and

means for processing overlapping events according to received instructions.

2. A device according to claim 1, comprising a program component for searching possible overlapping events.

3. A device according to claim 1, comprising means for associating processing alternatives with found overlapping events.

4. A device according to claim 1, comprising means for presenting to user found one or more overlapping events with one or more selectable processing alternatives associated to those.

5. A device according to claim 1, comprising a program component for processing found overlapping events according to received processing instructions.

6. A device according to claim 1, wherein a high priority event is selectable from a menu of a calendar application.

7. A device according to claim 1, comprising means for searching a memory block storing removed overlapping calendar events as a response to deleting the high priority event from the calendar application, and recovering found, timely matching, previously removed, overlapping events to the calendar application.

8. A device according to claim 1, comprising means for comparing time associated to a high priority event to a respective time of a calendar application for finding possible overlapping events from the calendar application.

9. A device according to claim 1, wherein a calendar application is situated in a device using it.

10. A device according to claim 1, wherein a calendar application is situated in a remote device being connected to a device using the calendar application.

11. A device according to claim 1, wherein the received high priority event is recognized by a central unit of a device.

12. A device according to claim 1, wherein the received high priority event is recognized by a calendar application.

13. A method for handling a calendar application, comprising steps of:

receiving a high priority event to be added to a calendar application,

searching possible overlapping events in a calendar application as a response to receiving a high priority event,

when one or more overlapping events are found, presenting found one or more overlapping events with one or more processing alternatives for processing the found events,

receiving a processing instruction for one or more presented overlapping events, and

processing the one or more overlapping events according to the one or more received processing instructions.

14. A method according to claim 13, comprising a step of adding the received high priority event to the calendar application and processing the one or more overlapping events according to the one or more received processing instructions as a response to a confirmation by a user.

15. A program for handling a calendar application, comprising

software means for browsing a calendar application,

software means for receiving a high priority event,

software means for searching possible overlapping events in a calendar application as a response to receiving a high priority event,

software means for associating found one or more overlapping events with one or more processing alternatives, and

software means for receiving selected alternatives as instructions for processing certain one or more presented overlapping events, and

software means for processing overlapping events according to received instructions.

16. A program component for handling a high priority event comprising

means for starting a search for possible overlapping events in a calendar application as a response to receiving a high priority event,

means for associating the found one or more overlapping events with one or more alternatives for processing those, and

means for processing presented overlapping events according to received selections for processing alternatives.