ELECTRONIC CALENDARING SYSTEM WITH AN EXPOSED APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

• US 20080162251A1
• Filed: 03/18/2008
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Group Incorporated (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Yong, Koopman, David
• Application Number:
  US12/050,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162251A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups

Abstract

Systems of the present invention provide for granting and/or receiving electronic calendar access via an exposed API. An exemplary system may include a customer'"'"'s electronic calendar that is configured to accept an event from a business by exposing the electronic calendar'"'"'s API to the business. The system may also include a profile manager that allows the customer to add the business to a trust list, which may identify those businesses to which access has been granted. A network may communicatively couple the electronic calendar, customer, business, and profile manager.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a) an electronic calendar of a first party configured to accept an event from a second party by having an application programming interface (API) exposed to said second party;

b) a profile manager allowing said first party to add said second party to a trust list; and

c) a network communicatively coupling said electronic calendar, said first party, said second party, and said profile manager.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said first party comprises a customer of a business and said second party comprises said business.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said electronic calendar comprises a web-based electronic calendar.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein said electronic calendar comprises a client-based electronic calendar

5. The system of claim 2, wherein said profile manager comprises a user interface that is a component of said electronic calendar.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein said profile manager comprises a user interface residing on a server communicatively coupled to said electronic calendar via said network.

7. The system of claim 2, further comprising a profile database storing a list of businesses provided access to said electronic calendar, said profile database comprising a component of said electronic calendar.

8. The system of claim 2, further comprising a profile database storing a list of businesses provided access to said electronic calendar, said profile database residing on a server communicatively coupled to said network.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising a customer database communicatively coupled to said network, said customer database storing a list of customers who have provided said business access to their electronic calendars.

10. A system, comprising:

a) a web-based electronic calendar of a customer configured to accept an event from a business by having an application programming interface (API) exposed to said business;

b) a profile manager allowing said customer to add said business to a trust list, said profile manager comprising a user interface that is a component of said electronic calendar;

c) a profile database storing a list of businesses provided access to said electronic calendar, said profile database comprising a component of said electronic calendar;

d) a customer database communicatively coupled to said network, said customer database storing a list of customers who have provided said business access to their electronic calendars; and

e) a network communicatively coupling said electronic calendar, said customer, said business, said profile manager, said profile database, and said customer database.