Share timeline of calendar

• US 9,746,997 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Joshi, Neel, Boone, Jeannine, Li, Joan, Rummel, Montine, Hawkins, Johanna, Healy, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Macilwinen, John
• Application Number:
  US14/519,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20150372829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,044 Days
• Field of Search: 709204, 709227, 709245, 709246, 709206, 709248, 705 717, 705 718, 705 721, 705963
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/903 Querying for retrieval from the web G06F16/953
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Sharing a timeline of a calendar is provided. An application such as a calendar application detects an activation of a share operations control on a timeline of a calendar. A context menu is displayed on the timeline, where the context menu includes a share control and a print control. An activation of the share control is detected. A communication component is initiated to share the timeline.

Claims

1. A method executed on a computing device to share a timeline of a calendar, the method comprising;

detecting an activation of a share operations control on the timeline of the calendar;

capturing a snapshot of the timeline;

displaying a context menu on the timeline, wherein the context menu includes a share control and a print control;

detecting an activation of the share control;

initiating a communication component to share the timeline by;

inserting the snapshot into a body of a message on the communication component for transmission to and display on a display device; and

automatically generating a header of the message based on attributes associated with the timeline and the calendar; and

in response to detecting a modification to the timeline;

capturing a new snapshot of the modified timeline; and

replacing the snapshot of the timeline with the new snapshot of the modified timeline in the body of the message on the communication component for transmission to and display on the display device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the context menu adjacent to the share operations control.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

initiating the communication component that includes one from a set of;

an email messaging component and a text messaging component.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically generating the header of the message based on attributes associated with the timeline and the calendar comprises:

inserting a label into a subject field of the communication component, wherein the label includes a title of the calendar before a term “

timeline”

.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

inserting a label into a top section of the body of the message on the communication component, wherein the label includes a title of the calendar before a term “

timeline”

.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing the snapshot as an image of the timeline as displayed at the activation of the share control.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

formatting the image in hyper markup text language (HTML); and

inserting the HTML formatted image into the body of the message as the snapshot.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

scaling dimensions of the image to fit a width of the communication component.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inviting a user to share another timeline of the calendar, wherein the other timeline is associated with the user.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

providing the user a permission to allow one or more from a set of;

an add operation, a removal operation, and a share content operation in relation to one or more events displayed on the timeline.

11. A computing device to share a timeline of a calendar, the computing device comprising:

a display device;

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory and the display device, the processor executing a calendar application in conjunction with instructions stored in the memory, wherein the calendar application is configured to;

detect an activation of a share operations control on the timeline of the calendar, wherein the timeline displays duplicated events from one or more events of the calendar and the duplicated events include one of;

a content that is a duplicate of content from the one or more events of the calendar, and a link to the content from the one or more events of the calendar;

display a context menu adjacent to the share operations control on the timeline, on the display device, wherein the context menu includes a share control and a print control;

detect an activation of the share control;

initiate a communication component to share the timeline, wherein an events section comprising one or more of the duplicated events displayed within the timeline is positioned below the timeline and shared along with the timeline; and

in response to a detection of a modification to the timeline, replace the shared timeline with the modified timeline and the shared events section with a new events section comprising one or more other duplicated events displayed within the modified timeline.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the calendar application is further configured to:

display event subjects of the one or more duplicated events in a list format within the events section, on the display device.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the calendar application is further configured to:

display event timestamps adjacent to the event subjects of the one or more duplicated events in the list format within the events section, on the display device.

14. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the calendar application is further configured to:

detect a selection of a snapshot of the timeline on a message body of the communication component; and

hide the communication component to display the calendar and the timeline.

15. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the calendar application is further configured to:

capture the modified timeline as a new snapshot in response to the detection of the modification to the timeline;

replace the snapshot of the timeline with the new snapshot of the modified timeline on the message body of the communication component; and

display the communication component, on the display device.

16. A method executed on a computing device to share a timeline of a calendar, the method comprising:

detecting an activation of a share operations control on the timeline of the calendar, wherein the timeline displays duplicated events from one or more events of the calendar and the duplicated events include one of a content that is a duplicate of content from the one or more events of the calendar, and as link to the content from the one or more events of the calendar;

capturing a snapshot of the timeline, wherein one or more of the duplicated events are detected within the snapshot;

displaying a context menu adjacent to the share operations control on the timeline, wherein the context menu includes a share control and a print control;

detecting an activation of the share control;

initiating a communication component to share the timeline by;

inserting the snapshot and an events section comprising the one or more duplicated events detected within the snapshot into a body of a message on the communication component for transmission and display on a display device; and

automatically generating a header of the message based on attributes associated with the timeline and the calendar; and

in response to detecting a modification to the timeline;

capturing a new snapshot of the modified timeline, wherein one or more of the duplicated events are detected within the new snapshot of the modified timeline;

replacing the snapshot with the new snapshot on the message body of the communication component for transmission to and display on the display device; and

replacing the events section comprising the one or more duplicated events detected within the snapshot with a new events section comprising the one or more duplicated events detected within the new snapshot on the message body of the communication component for transmission to and display on the display device.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

capturing the snapshot of the timeline as an image of the timeline as displayed at the activation of the share control;

formatting the image in hyper markup text language (HTML); and

inserting the HTML formatted image into the message body of the communication component.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

inviting a user to share another timeline of the calendar, wherein the other timeline is associated with the user; and

providing the user a permission to allow one or more from a set of;

an add operation, a removal operation, and a share content operation in relation to one or more events displayed on the timeline.