Calendar-viewing system providing quick-access user activity information

• US 6,370,554 B1
• Filed: 08/14/1998
• Issued: 04/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Sun-Woo, Chung
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOULES, JACK M
• Application Number:
  US09/134,786
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/2, 707/507, 345/763, 345/781, 345/804, 708/111, 708/112
• US Class Current: 708/112
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing

Abstract

A calendar-viewing system comprising a calendar-viewing program in execution in a handheld computing device is disclosed. The calendar-viewing system has a display for presenting a calendar view to a user. In the calendar view, a period of interest is prescribed, and the user activity information for that prescribed period is shown. However, only limited or truncated text descriptions of the activities in each day of the prescribed period is provided in the calendar view. To quickly access further user activity information for a selected period within the prescribed period, the user can activate a view of a set of user activity information for the selected period. This view then replaces a portion of the calendar view.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a calendar view for a prescribed first period of a calendar on a handheld computing device having a display and a database, comprising the steps of:

reading a set of information for the calendar view from the database;

prior to displaying the calendar view, collecting all user activity information for the entire first period prescribed by the calendar view from the database;

displaying the calendar view on the handheld computing device display using the calendar view information;

enabling the user to select a second period within the first period prescribed by the calendar view;

replacing a portion of the calendar view using a first set of user activity information corresponding to the selected second period; and

storing the image of the portion of the calendar view to be replaced by the view of the first set of user activity information corresponding to the selected second period.

2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of enabling the re-display of the image of the portion of the calendar view replaced by the view of the user activity information for the selected second period.

3. The method as in claim 2, wherein the step of replacing the portion of the calendar view using the user activity information for the selected second period further includes controlling the handheld computing device display directly for drawing the view of the user activity information on the handheld computing device display.

4. The method as in claim 3, wherein the step of directly controlling the handheld computing device display for drawing the view of the user activity information on the handheld computing device display further includes performing block data transfer by using the handheld computing device display to re-display the image of the portion of the calendar view replaced by the view of the user activity information for the selected second period.