AGENDA DETERMINATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20100205569A1
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: MAY, Darrell Reginald, SCOTT, Sherryl Lee Lorraine, EDWARDS, Robert John, ZINN, Ronald Scotte
• Application Number:
  US12/764,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/853
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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

A method of displaying an agenda at an electronic device includes retrieving, from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, determining free time periods absent of the calendared events, and providing the calendared events and at least some of the free time periods in a time-ordered list.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an electronic device, the method comprising:

retrieving from at least one database of said electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints;

displaying said calendared events in a time-ordered list including a start date/time of each of said calendared events; and

providing a user-selectable option to either show end times or to hide said end times in said time-ordered list,

wherein said time-ordered list includes an end date/time of each of said calendared events when said user-selectable option is set to show end times.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising determining free time periods absent of said calendared events prior to said displaying and wherein said displaying comprises displaying said calendar events and at least some of said free time periods in said time-ordered list.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said determining comprises determining for each of said free time periods, a start date/time and an end date/time.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said displaying comprises displaying a start date/time for each of said free time periods and, when said user-selectable option is set to show said end times, said displaying comprises displaying an end date/time of each of said free time periods in said time-ordered list.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein said determining comprises calculating a duration of each of said free time periods by subtracting said start date/time from said end date/time.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said displaying comprises displaying a start date/time and a duration of each of said free time periods when said user-selectable option is set to hide said end times.

7. The method according to claim 5, comprising comparing said duration of each of said free time periods to a minimum duration prior to said displaying, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said calendared events and only those free time periods that are equal to or greater in duration than said minimum duration.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein said start date/time of each said free time period is based on one of a configured start time of a calendar day, an end date/time of a non-conflicting calendared event and a latest end date/time of a set of conflicting calendared events.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said end date/time of each said free time period is based on one of a configured end time of a calendar day, a start date/time of the next one of said non-conflicting calendared events and an earliest start date/time of a next set of conflicting calendared events.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said at least some of said free time periods with a user-selectable display attribute.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said at least some of said free time periods with a display attribute different from that of said calendared events.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein said determining free time periods comprises determining only those free time periods that are on or after the current date/time according to a clock at the electronic device.

13. The method of claim 5, comprising comparing said duration of each of said free time periods to a minimum duration prior to said displaying, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said calendared events and only those free time periods that are greater in duration than said minimum duration.

14. A computer program product for displaying a plurality of calendared events in a list on a display of an electronic device, said computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for:

retrieving from at least one database of said electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints;

displaying said calendared events in a time-ordered list including a start date/time of each of said calendared events; and

providing a user-selectable option to either show end times or to hide said end times in said time-ordered list,

wherein said time-ordered list includes an end date/time of each of said calendared events when said user-selectable option is set to show end times.