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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161419 | Integrated graphical user interface and system with focusing An integrated web-based communications/calendar/organizational/entertainment system provides a user interface to provide the most pertinent data to a user at any time by organizing the data into strips of content organized according to four broad contexts of who, wh... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8095406 | Content display method, a content display apparatus, and a recording medium on which a content display program is recorded A content display method is disclosed. The content display method includes the steps of: accepting an instruction input to create a target calendar; extracting a content that indication information has to be displayed in an elapsed period having already passed and a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8041650 | Method and system for directed documentation of construction projects Methods and systems for directed creation of construction documentation are provided. Example embodiments provide a Directed Documentation System (a “DDS”), which directs, in a computer-assisted manner, the creation of a historical record of a portion or an enti... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8005855 | Interface with scheduling information during defined period Providing a user with scheduling information for a defined period of time. Calendar data which is indicative of the user's availability during the defined period of time is obtained based on an electronic calendar associated with the user. Event data which is indica... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7822713 | Method of managing a calendar and a computer system for implementing that method 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 calend... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814055 | Method of managing a calendar and a computer system for implementing that method The current invention is about methods, systems and machine readable media for operating a calendar in a data processing system. In one exemplary method of managing said calendar, which contains at least one event, the method includes subscribing to said calendar wh... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7703048 | Managing flexible events within an electronic calendar A method, system, and program are provided for managing flexible events within an electronic calendar. A calendaring controller schedules fixed events requiring a fixed time slots and flexible events that are flexible for scheduling over a particular time period for... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7581196 | Reservation registration apparatus method of reservation registration and program storage medium A reservation registration apparatus, a method of reservation registration and a program storage medium allow reservation registration to be performed by easy operation. A starting time and an ending time can be set and changed by easy operation by displaying on a d... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7519924 | Handheld electronic device including appointment and meeting conflict notification, and associated method A method of checking a new entry in a calendar application having a cache that includes a first subset of existing entries falling within a first date range. Also, an electronic device implementing the method. The method includes determining whether the date of the ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7441194 | Calendar-based user interface system A calendar-based interface system accommodates innate human memory by associating computer-related events, and other events, based upon when they occur. The calendar user interface system utilizes a calendar as a top-level user interface for accessing computer infor... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437679 | Displaying information with visual cues to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421660 | Method and apparatus to visually present discussions for data mining purposes A method of organizing information is disclosed. The method comprises providing a visualization of actor communications in the context of one or more discussion, a discussion including at least one actor and at least one documented communication. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412532 | Multimedia scheduler A song and ad scheduler supporting clip-based and stream-based scheduling of multimedia items generates several hours of schedule in advance. Having multiple channel capability, the scheduler uses as inputs: the channel, associated playlists associated, rotation pat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406467 | Network-based management of airline customer data A management system for a transportation carrier such as an airline is described that provides network-based management of customer data by allowing a user to form a list comprising multiple customers associated with different sets of criteria and to process custome... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7385875 | Dismiss all event reminders A hand-held mobile electronic device that includes a controller, a display, a user input device, a storage, and a rigid case dimensioned to be held in a hand of a user, the case housing the controller, the display, the user input device and the storage. The controll... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386785 | Automatic electronic timesheet filler A method for automatically filling an electronic timesheet includes extracting one or more calendar entries from an electronic calendar and matching each calendar entry of the one or more calendar entries to a corresponding project of a list of projects. An electron... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370282 | Grouping and displaying multiple tasks within an event object of an electronic calendar A system for the display and editing of scheduled tasks and timeslots represented in the form of user interface elements embedded in the calendar regions of the graphical user interface of electronic calendaring systems. It provides structures and methods for editin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353465 | Method for managing personal and work-related matters A family management system provides a family manager with family-related and work-related information. This information may be provided to the family manager in the form of one or more screens depicting calendars, e-mail, and/or other tasks. In particular, family-re... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353466 | System and method for generating message notification objects on dynamically scaled timeline A system and related techniques to collect and manage a set of incoming message notification objects, such as instant message notifications, email notifications, download notifications, transaction notifications and others and present those objects to the user with ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340679 | Processing life and work events A system with user interface controls, a build component, a runtime component, and a workflow engine enables a user to specify an event definition, create an event instance based on the event definition, and process the event instance. The event definition may inclu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340691 | Method, system, and program for accessing calendar information for shadowed users from a database Provided is a method, system, and program for accessing calendar information of users in a database for presentation by a personal information manager. Scheduled event records for users are maintained within the database. Further maintained in the database is inform... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7302643 | System and method for scheduled events to subscribe to live information topics A calendar system stores and organizes materials related to scheduled events, to-dos, addresses, etc. and allows a user to browse a calendar and select entries for viewing. In addition, each entry is linked to any number of topics related to that entry and up-to-dat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293241 | Method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation in a user interface The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation on a user interface in order to select a feature by combining object fields. Bars, where at least one of them is scrollable, have object fields which overlap and combine each ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7257778 | Calendar system and a method for producing a calendar view A device and also a system for generating a period-specific calendar view in an electronic device with a display for displaying information and a database for storing calendar data, wherein the method reads calendar data of the period from the database for a calenda... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7213210 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing e-mail messages In a method form, the invention includes generating a first snooze button associated with a user interface for displaying e-mail messages, wherein the e-mail messages have been sent to the user. A dialog box is generated responsive to user activation of an instance ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191028 | Electrically controlled apparatus An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically controls the input-output section according to operating status data of ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181689 | Method for sorting and displaying a multiple user database A method for organizing and displaying multiple calendars (200, 300, 400, and 500) from multiple devices (102, 104, 106, and 108) to give an appearance of a single user calendar (1100 and 1200) on a user's device is disclose... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174517 | Multi-layered online calendaring and purchasing A computer-implemented method and system for generating and displaying a calendar containing user-selected events from user-selected categories. A plurality of categories of events are provided. The user can select which categories are of interest, and then select i... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171448 | Conducting activities in a collaborative work tool architecture The present disclosure provides for conducting activities between users in a collaborative work tool architecture. A client user interface including at least one activity data field is afforded. Then, a selection of a particular activity data field from a user is re... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162701 | User interface for a decision support system Methods are provided for navigation user interface mechanisms. In one embodiment, a directed summary of (i) what caused the value of a selected cell within a tabular view of data; or (ii) context into which the value of the selected cell fits as part of a larger ove... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162473 | Method and system for usage analyzer that determines user accessed sources, indexes data subsets, and associated metadata, processing implicit queries based on potential interest to users The present invention relates to systems and methods providing content-access-based information retrieval. Information items from a plurality of disparate information sources that have been previously accessed or considered are automatically indexed in a data store,... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162698 | Sliding window packet management systems Included in the invention are systems and methods of full time recording network traffic to a hierarchical data storage. Also included in the invention are systems and methods of retrieval of recorded network traffic from a hierarchically organized network data repo... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149810 | System and method for managing calendar items A system and method for managing calendar items in a calendar software application. The method and system preserve calendar data associated with past dates. In addition, the method and system manage modification requests associated with future dates. In response to ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146567 | Method and system for dynamic display of marketing campaigns on display locations via a network A method and system for dynamic display of marketing campaigns on display locations via a network. The system includes a database for storing advertising material, and display locations for displaying the advertising material. Further, the system includes a server f... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7120879 | Hierarchical presentation techniques for a design tool A design tool hierarchically presents information about a design with nested blocks. For example, the design tool presents scheduling information for the design in a hierarchical Gantt chart. The scheduling information includes hierarchical design schedule blocks wh... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111251 | Schedule management apparatus, schedule management method, and computer-readable recording medium storing schedule management program The present invention provides a schedule management apparatus for managing and displaying entered schedules. The schedule display control unit displays a schedule in a schedule display frame corresponding to the date of the monthly schedule table. The display switc... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7010762 | Pre-loading content to caches for information appliances A system and method where the user can first view information content at a first information appliance at a first location, and instruct the system to pre-load the information content at a second information appliance at a second location prior to second viewing. Th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003735 | Calendar desktop graphical user interface (GUI) for computer workstations, personal computers, and personal digital assistants A structure and method for supplying a graphic user interface for a computer. The graphic user interface comprises a schedule having at least one time slot identifying at least one activity and at least one link associated with the activity. The link starts at least... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993723 | Listing activities in a graphical user interface in a collaborative work tool Architecture A system, method and program are provided for listing activities in a graphical user interface in a collaborative work tool framework. An activity window having activity description data, activity start data, activity duration data, and an activity status data is di... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980891 | Power plant operation control system and a power plant maintaining and managing method An operation control system for a plurality of power generating plants and a method of maintaining and managing a plurality of power generating plants which supply power to arbitrary power systems. The operation control system includes a general supervision/diagnosi... | 12/27/2005 |
