Method of managing a calendar and a computer system for implementing that method

• US 20060265660A1
• Filed: 07/31/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bertrand Guiheneuf, Eric Noyau, Jean-Marie Hullot, Laurent Cerveau
• Original Assignee: Bertrand Guiheneuf, Eric Noyau, Jean-Marie Hullot, Laurent Cerveau
• Inventors: Guiheneuf, Bertrand, Noyau, Eric, Hullot, Jean-Marie, Cerveau, Laurent
• Granted Patent: US 7,822,713 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

Methods, systems and machine readable media for operating a calendar in a data processing system. In one exemplary method of managing a calendar, which contains at least one event, said method comprises: making available the calendar in an electronic format; subscribing to said calendar; downloading said calendar from a host electronic device to a subscriber electronic device; and storing said calendar in said electronic format to form a local calendar.

Claims

1. A method of managing a calendar, said calendar containing at least one event, said method comprising:

making available the calendar in an electronic format;

subscribing to said calendar;

downloading said calendar from a host electronic device to a subscriber electronic device; and

storing said calendar in said electronic format to form a local calendar.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, in which said making available said calendar comprises publishing said calendar over the Internet.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

making changes to the events in said calendar;

downloading said changes from the host electronic device to said subscriber device; and

updating the local calendar stored on said subscriber electronic device with said changes.

4. A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

notifying a user of the subscriber electronic device of said changes.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

notifying a user of one of the devices of a new event or change to one of the events;

replying to said notification to confirm said new event or change;

making said change to either said calendar or said local calendar;

downloading said change from the updated device to the other device; and

updating the other calendar stored on the other device.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, after said step of notifying a user, further comprising:

replying to said notification to disagree or amend said new event or change; and

re-notifying said user to confirm or amend said notification.

7. A method as claimed in claim 3, in which there are a plurality of subscriber electronic devices.

8. A method as claimed in claim 3, in which said subscriber electronic device includes at least one subscriber calendar and said local calendar is stored with said subscriber calendar.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8, in which said subscriber calendar and said local calendar share a user interface.

10. A computer system having a host electronic device and at least one subscriber device and a computer program arranged for implementing a method as claimed in claim 1.

11. A computer system as claimed in claim 10, in which the or each subscriber electronic device includes at least one subscriber calendar and said local calendar is stored with said subscriber calendar.

12. A computer system as claimed in claim 11, in which the or each said subscriber calendar and said local calendar share a user interface.

13. A computer system as claimed in claim 12, in which said user interface comprises more than one window.

14. A computer system as claimed in claim 13, in which one of said windows comprises a primary data range.

15. A computer system as claimed in claim 14, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each day of a month.

16. A computer system as claimed in claim 14, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each day of a week.

17. A computer system as claimed in claim 14, in which said primary data range contains a data field for each month of a year.

18. A computer system as claimed in claim 14, in which said primary date range contains a data field for each of a plurality of hours of a selected day.

19. A computer system as claimed in claim 18, in which another of said windows comprises a subsidiary date range comprising at least one month and including a marker for indicating the selected day.

20. A computer system as claimed in claim 18, in which another of said windows comprises a second subsidiary date range comprising at least one week and including a secondary marker for indicating the selected day.