Client side system and method for search backed calendar user interface

• US 10,606,859 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2014
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Asana
• Original Assignee: Asana
• Inventors: Smith, Joshua R., DuBois, Anne, Chang, Cliff, Stahl, Jr., John, Braginsky, David, Smith, Scott Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Klicos, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/584,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20160147846A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,919 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A method is provided to produce a custom calendar user interface (UI) display on an electronic device display screen comprising: providing a search query to a user device; sending the search query over the network to a server system; receiving over the network by one or more user devices from a server system, information that identifies one or more code objects that match the search query; using the identified one or more identified code objects by the one or more user devices to generate one or more visual content items within a calendar user interface (UI) grid display on their device display screens.

Claims

1. A method to produce a custom calendar user interface (UI) on an electronic device display screen of a user device, the method comprising:

receiving a search query that includes attribute information at the user device, wherein the attribute information corresponds to one or more tasks;

sending, by the user device, the search query over the network to a server system;

receiving, from a first user device that is different from the user device, at the server system, a first code object that corresponds to a first task previously assigned to a first user and having a first task status value, wherein the first code object includes device readable code that is used to generate a first visual content item for the first task, such that the first code object has been used by the first user device to generate the first visual content item within a first calendar UI on the first user device;

receiving, from a second user device that is different from the user device and the first user device, at the server system, a second code object that corresponds to a second task previously assigned to a second user and having a second task status value, wherein the second code object includes device readable code that is used to generate a second visual content item for the second task, such that the second code object has been used by the second user device to generate the second visual content item within a second calendar UI on the second user device, the first code object being separate and discrete from the second code object;

storing, in a computer readable storage device associated with the server system, an information structure that associates attribute information with code objects corresponding to tasks and that associates the code objects with dates, wherein the code objects are separate and discrete objects including device readable code that are used to generate combinations of multiple visual content items for the tasks assigned to multiple different users within a calendar date pane display grid within the custom calendar UI, the calendar date pane display grid comprising a two-dimensional display grid of date panes that correspond to days and weeks of a month, wherein the code objects include the first code object received from the first user device and the second code object received from the second user device, the code objects including corresponding attributes characterized by stored attribute information, such that the stored attribute information for the first code object which corresponds to the first task includes a first task identification value, a first task assignment value, and the first task status value, wherein the stored attribute information for the second code object which corresponds to the second task includes a second task identification value, a second task assignment value, and the second task status value;

matching, at the server system, the attribute information included with the search query with the stored attribute information to identify one or more of the code objects and one or more of the dates that match the search query;

transmitting, by the server system, information that identifies multiple ones of the code objects and the dates associated with the stored attribute information that matches the attribute information included with the search query;

receiving over the network by the user device from the server system, the information that identifies the multiple ones of the code objects and the dates associated with the stored attribute information that matches the attribute information included with the search query; and

using, by the user device, the multiple ones of the code objects to generate the multiple visual content items for the tasks within the calendar date pane display grid within the custom calendar UI that is displayed via the user device in accordance with the multiple ones of the code objects identified, wherein the multiple visual content items include the first visual content item corresponding to the first task previously assigned to the first user and the second visual content item corresponding to the second task previously assigned to the second user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first task status value of the first task is selected from a set of status values that includes a completed status that indicates a task has been completed,

wherein using the multiple ones of the code objects to generate the multiple visual content items includes using the first code object to generate the first visual content item and using the second code object to generate the second visual content item, wherein the first visual content item displays a first representation of the first task status value, and wherein the second visual content items displays a second representation of the second task status value.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

chronologically ordering the multiple ones of the code objects into an ordered calendar UI information structure; and

using the ordered calendar UI information structure to map the multiple visual content items to the custom calendar UI displayed on the device display screen.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple ones of the code objects identified by the server system are associated with dates within a prescribed date range, and wherein the method further comprises:

sending, by the user device, a request over the network to the server system for information indicating matching code objects associated with dates within an extended date range that is outside of the prescribed date range;

sending over the network by the server system to the user device, information that identifies at least one code object and date within the extended date range associated in the information structure with stored attribute information that matches the attribute information included with the search query;

receiving over the network by the user device from the server system, the information that identifies the at least one code object and date within an extended date range associated in the information structure with the identified at least one code object; and

using the identified at least one code object to generate at least one visual content item within the custom calendar UI display on a device display screen of the user device.

5. The method of claim 1 further including:

sending over a network from different user devices to the server system, different code objects that are associated with dates, wherein the code objects are adapted for use to generate the visual content items on the different user device display screens,

wherein receiving over the network from the server system, information that identifies the multiple ones of the code objects that match the search query includes receiving information that matches multiple different code objects sent over the network by different user devices to the server system.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein the search query identifies two or more of an individual task, a task deadline, a milestone, a keyword, or a person.

7. The method of claim 1,

wherein the information that identifies the multiple ones of the code objects that match the search query received by the user device includes attribute information that matches the attribute information in the search query.

8. A calendar user interface management system comprising:

a user device including an electronic device display screen; and

a server system including one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

receive, from a first user device that is different from the user device, a first code object that corresponds to a first task previously assigned to a first user and having a first task status value, wherein the first code object includes device readable code that is used to generate a first visual content item for the first task, such that the first code object has been used by the first user device to generate the first visual content item within a first calendar UI on the first user device; and

receive, from a second user device that is different from the user device and the first user device, a second code object that corresponds to a second task previously assigned to a second user and having a second task status value, wherein the second code object includes device readable code that is used to generate a second visual content item for the second task, such that the second code object has been used by the second user device to generate the second visual content item within a second calendar UI on the second user device, the first code object being separate and discrete from the second code object;

wherein the user device includes one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

receive a search query that includes attribute information, wherein the attribute information corresponds to one or more tasks;

send the search query over a network to the server system; and

use code objects to generate multiple visual content items for tasks within a calendar date pane display grid within the custom calendar UI that is displayed via the user device in accordance with multiple ones of the code objects, wherein the multiple ones of the code objects include the first code object received from the first user device and the second code object received from the second user device, wherein the code objects are separate and discrete objects including device readable code that are used to generate the multiple visual content items for the tasks within the calendar date pane display grid within the custom calendar user interface, the calendar date pane display grid comprising a two-dimensional display grid of date panes that correspond to days and weeks of a month, wherein the code objects correspond to the tasks, wherein the multiple visual content items include the first visual content item corresponding to the first task previously assigned to the first user and the second visual content item corresponding to the second task previously assigned to the second user; and

wherein the server system includes one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

store, in a computer readable storage device associated with the server system, an information structure that associates the attribute information with the multiple ones of the code objects corresponding to the tasks and that associates the code objects with dates, the multiple ones of the code objects including corresponding attributes characterized by stored attribute information, such that the stored attribute information for the first code object which corresponds to the first task includes a first task identification value, a first task assignment value, and the first task status value, the first code object being separate and discrete from the second code object that corresponds to the second task, wherein the stored attribute information for the second code object which corresponds to the second task includes a second task identification value, a second task assignment value, and the second task status value; and

match the attribute information, included in the search query, with the stored attribute information to identify one or more of the code objects and one or more of the dates that match the search query;

transmitting, over the network to the user device, information identifying the multiple ones of the code objects and the dates associated with the stored attribute information that matches the attribute information included with the search query.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

identify a set of code objects from among the multiple ones of the code objects that fit within a prescribed date range.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

produce a code object ordering information structure in a computer readable storage device that orders the multiple ones of the code objects according to their associated dates; and

identify code objects from among the multiple ones of the code objects that fit within a prescribed date range based upon the code object ordering information structure.

11. The system of claim 8 further including:

a computer readable storage device including a calendar user interface (UI) information structure that associates the multiple code objects with date panes of a calendar UI grid that correspond to dates associated in the attribute association information structure associated with the multiple ones of the code objects.