COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC CALENDAR

• US 20090158173A1
• Filed: 06/18/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joshua James Shaw, Robert Bonev, Samuel Louis Palahnuk
• Original Assignee: Joshua James Shaw, Robert Bonev, Samuel Louis Palahnuk
• Inventors: Bonev, Robert, SHAW, Joshua James, PALAHNUK, Samuel Louis
• Application Number:
  US12/141,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20090158173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0252 based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

The following describes a system and methods that provide integrated web-based graphic user interface to manage communications for a variety of WEB-accessible mobile devices, computers, and other consumer electronic devices. The user interface provides a dynamic calendar. The dynamic calendar has the ability to focus the calendar, adjust the size of the calendar, and determine availability of other system users. In addition, the system may automatically organize events scheduled on the calendar.

Claims

1. A method of scheduling an event using a graphical user interface presenting a calendar generated by a service provider system, the method comprising:

providing a representation of list of contacts to the user interface;

providing a representation of a calendar to the user interface;

receiving an indication of selection of one or more contacts from the list being moved to a position coinciding with a location in the calendar; and

generating a message to the one or more contacts inviting the contact to an event based on the location.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing a representation of the event as pending for the graphical user interface of a user inviting the contact.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing a representation of the event as pending for the graphical user interface of a user inviting the contact; and

providing a representation of the event as pending for the graphical user interface of the contact.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that at least two contacts were selected;

spawning a website; and

monitoring the website for a response from the contacts to accept the invitation.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining that one of the at least two contacts is not a system user;

transmitting an email to the contact with a link to the website; and

monitoring the website for a response from the non system user contact to accept the invitation.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that at least one contact is not a system user;

spawning a website;

transmitting an email to the contact with a link to the website; and

monitoring the website for a response from the contacts to accept the invitation.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the location coincides with a date.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the location coincides with a time of day.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving an indication of the selection of one or more contacts from the list being moved to a position coinciding with a location in the calendar includes establishing a instant message protocol connection with the user interface and receiving an instant message from the user interface with the indication.

10. The method of claim 2 wherein providing a representation of the event as pending for the graphical user interface of a user includes establishing a instant message protocol connection with the user interface and sending an instant message to the user interface with the data to generate the representation.

11. A method of presenting a calendar in a graphical user interface generated by a service provider system, the method comprising:

generating a webpage of presenting the user interface including an area depicting the calendar having a representation of days of the month;

receiving an indication of user interaction with the calendar; and

dynamically adjusting the representation in response to the indication by expanding a portion of the calendar and contracting the remainder of the calendar.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the expanded portion is a representation of a week and the contracted remainder is a representation of days of a month not in the week.

13. The method of claim wherein 11 the expanded portion is a representation of a day within a week and the contracted remainder is a representation of the remaining days of the week and days of a month.

14. A method of presenting a webpage generated by a service provider system for presentation on a user device, the method comprising:

generating a webpage using a mark-up language;

embedding in the markup language for the webpage an instant messaging protocol;

transmitting the markup language data to the user device;

establishing an instant message link with the user device based on the instant message protocol;

receiving an instant message from the user device indicating user interaction with the webpage; and

transmitting an instant message to the user device with date to update the appearance of the webpage.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the webpage is a graphical user interface

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the graphical user interface includes a calendar.