Calendar event description abbreviation

• US 4,591,840 A
• Filed: 11/04/1983
• Issued: 05/27/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Curtis, Donald E., Vincent, James P., Weidmann, Mary E.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heim, Michael F.
• Application Number:
  US06/548,608
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 340/700, 340/706, 340/711, 340/716, 364/401, 364/402, 364/407, 40/107, 238/2, 238/3, 238/4, 368/41, 368/10, 368/82
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

A method of building a monthly calendar screen having abbreviated event descriptions directly translated from event descriptions on day screens. Day screens are built from keyed in dates, times, and descriptions of events related to the dates and times. Monthly screens are built by combining and abbreviating corresponding day screens. Keying and coding during day screen building, and processing steps during monthly screen building are reduced by positionally locating the first characters of day screen event descriptions, time-wise, within the monthly screens.

Claims

1. A method of building a readily interpretable monthly calendar, said method comprising:

(a) keying time related event descriptions for building daily screens;

(b) building a monthly calendar with days of a month indicated thereon;

(c) locating the first character of an event description for a day from a daily screen; and

(d) positioning said first character time-wise relative to a day indication on said monthly calendar.

2. A method according to claim 1 including keying times for said event descriptions when building daily screens.

3. A method according to claim 1 including building a monthly calendar having a grid forming blocks for each day of a month.

4. A method according to claim 3 including dividing each block into a number of time increments.

5. A method according to claim 4 including marking said time increments for which there are no corresponding event descriptions.

6. A method according to claim 5 including providing space before and after a portion of said time increment divided block for indicating before and after working hour events.