REPRESENTING IN AN ELECTRONIC CALENDAR TRAVEL TIME TO AND FROM AN EVENT

• US 20160148163A1
• Filed: 11/20/2014
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Beaumont, Suzanne Marion, Waltermann, Rod D., Zaitsev, Grigori
• Application Number:
  US14/549,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20160148163A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment

Abstract

In one aspect, a device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to predict a time to travel at least one of to an event entered in an electronic calendar and from the event indicated in the electronic calendar. The instructions are also executable to represent the time to travel in the electronic calendar.

Claims

1. A first device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

establish a first entry in an electronic calendar for a first event based on a first date and a first time;

determine, based at least partially on the first date and the first time, a second date and a second time during which a second entry in the electronic calendar pertaining to an in-person meeting cannot be established.

2. The first device of claim 1, wherein the first date and the second date are the same date, and wherein second time is adjacent the first time.

3. The first device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to:

determine, based at least partially on the first date and the first time, the second date and the second time during which any entry in the electronic calendar pertaining to any event cannot be established.

4. The first device of claim 1, wherein the determination is made at least in part based on a prediction of travel time from a first location to a second location, wherein the second location is a location at which the first event is to occur.

5. The first device of claim 4, wherein the first location is a location at which the first device is currently located.

6. The first device of claim 4, wherein the first location is a location at which the first device is predicted to be located at a time before the first date and first time.

7. The first device of claim 1, wherein the determination is made at least in part based on a prediction of travel time from a first location to a second location, wherein the first location is a location at which the first event is to occur.

8. The first device of claim 7, wherein the second location is a location at which the first device is predicted to be located at a time after the first date and first time.

9. The first device of claim 7, wherein the second location is a location at which a second event is to occur that is subsequent to the first event.

10. The first device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to:

predict a mode of transportation between a first location at which the first event is to occur and a second location;

wherein the determination is based at least partially on the first date and the first time, and is based at least partially on the prediction of a mode of transportation.

11. The first device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to:

determine whether telephonic communications can be conducted during the second date and second time.

12. The first device of claim 11, wherein the instructions are executable to:

in response to a determination that telephonic communications can be conducted during the second date and second time, create an indication presentable at a second device which accesses the calendar and which is different from the first device, the indication at least providing information that a person associated with the electronic calendar is available for telephonic communications during the second date and second time.

13. The first device of claim 12, wherein the indication provides information that the person is not available for an in-person meeting during the second date and second time.

14. A method, comprising:

estimating time to travel at least one of to an event entered in an electronic calendar and from the event indicated in the electronic calendar; and

representing the time to travel in the electronic calendar.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the time to travel is represented in the electronic calendar by amending the entry for the event, which comprises information pertaining to a first date and first time range at which the event is to occur, to comprise the time to travel.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the time to travel is represented in the electronic calendar at least in part by creating a partition in the electronic calendar for a time at which the time to travel is estimated to occur.

17. A computer readable storage medium that is not a carrier wave, the computer readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

identify information pertaining to a transit time at least one of to an event indicated in an electronic calendar and from the event indicated in the electronic calendar; and

indicate in the electronic calendar the information.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the information is indicated at least in part by one of creation of a first entry in the electronic calendar for the transit time and addition of the travel time to a second entry in the electronic calendar for the event.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the information is first information, and wherein the instructions are executable to:

identify second information pertaining to a change to the transit time; and

in response to the identification of the second information, adjust the indication in the electronic calendar to indicate the change to the transit time.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the electronic calendar is associated with a first device, and wherein the instructions are executable to:

access a data structure comprising data pertaining to past location information for the first device at past dates and past times; and

identify the information pertaining to the transit time based at least in part on at least a portion of the data.