Electronic calendar and diary
First Claim
1. concurrently displaying the plural appointment times for that day..]. 2. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said manually
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Abstract
An electronic schedule calendar and diary for storing in an electronic memory a plurality of future calendar appointments and events for each of a plurality of daily, weekly, or other date interval periods, and enabling the selective retrieval and electronic display of said plural appointments and events for any selected time period. The electronic diary employs manually or remotely controlled entry of said future appointments and events in digital form; manually or remotely controlled correction and updating of said data; and manually controlled retrieval or readout into a visual electronic display. A time-of-day electronic clock may also be included together with an automatic alarm for providing an alarm for each selected appointment or even entered into the memory. In a systems version, a plurality of electronic diaries are employed with a central memory or monitor. Each diary is selectively placed in communication with the central memory for transfer of data therebetween.
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- 1. concurrently displaying the plural appointment times for that day..]. 2. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said manually
- 7. for any selected different day. 10. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., a plurality of said electronic diaries, a central monitor for said plurality of diaries, and means for coupling said diaries to said central monitor for storing the calendar schedule of said diaries
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11. events and calendar appointments. .Iadd.14. A small personalized, self-contained electronic diary for enabling a user to selectively enter, store, revise, and concurrently display a schedule of different appointments and events for each day or other extended period, and to enter, store, revise, and display such schedules for any one of a series of different days or extended time periods,
said diary having all components contained within a small, easily movable housing, comprising: -
a multiline electronic visual display for displaying a schedule of different appointments on different lines of the display, an electronic memory for selectively storing digital data concerning plural present and future time-of-day events and calendar appointments for present or future time periods and having capacity for storing a plurality of such future events and appointments for each of a series of time periods in the future, manual controlled electrical entry means for enabling the selective entry into the memory, at will, of said plural present and future time-of-day events and appointments for each of said days or time periods, and enabling the selective correction and updating of said stored digital data, at will, and manually controlled electrical retrieval means for coupling said memory to said visual display to concurrently visually indicate each of the entire schedules for any one of the selected present or future time periods on the multiple lines of the display. .Iaddend. .Iadd.15. A small, personalized, self-contained electronic diary for enabling a user to selectively enter, store, revise, and concurrently display on a multiple line electronic display, a schedule of different appointments and events for each day or other extended time period, and to enter, store, revise, and selectively display such schedules for a series of different days or extended time periods in the future, said diary having all components contained within a small, easily movable housing, comprising; an electronic clock for cumulatively determining the actual date and time-of-day as a number of functions including minutes, hours, days, and month, an electronic memory means for storing a plurality of time-of-day appointments for each of a plurality of said days or time periods, including those of the present and the future, manually controlled means coupled to said memory for selecting, at will, each of the present and future days or time periods, individually, and for entering and storing in said memory for that selected day or time period, digital data corresponding to a plurality of different time-of-day events and appointments, said manually controlled means including manually controlled correction and update means for selectively changing and updating, at will, in the memory the digital data for any given appointment or event time-of-day, for any of the present and future days or time periods, thereby to enable the schedule for any of said days or time periods in said memory to be corrected and rendered current at any time, said manually controlled means including manually controlled retrieval means for selectively accessing said electronic memory, at will, for any one of the plurality of days or time periods, and for reading out the stored schedule of plural appointments and events for that day or time period to said electronic display for concurrently displaying the plural appointments and events on the multiple lines of the electronic display. .Iaddend. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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