Method for automatically reconciling entries on two copies of independently maintained electronic calendars

Patent 4866611 Issued on September 12, 1989. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 29, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 07/008249 filed on 01/29/1987

US Classes:

708/112, Calendar345/168, Including keyboard368/28, WITH CALENDAR INDICATOR700/90, SPECIFIC APPLICATION, APPARATUS OR PROCESS707/100DATABASE SCHEMA OR DATA STRUCTURE

Examiners

Primary: Chan, Eddie P.
Assistant: Ruiz, Adolfo

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Cummins; R. E.

International Classes

G06Q 10/00 (20060101)
G09D 3/00 (20060101)
G09D 3/12 (20060101)

Abstract

An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system in which calendar entries that have been made for the same time span independently on two different copies of the calendar can be automatically and interactively reconciled. The method permits a calendar owner to obtain a machine readable transportable copy of his calendar on a diskette, to update that copy when the master copy is not available to him because of a business trip, for example, and upon his return to automatically and interactively reconcile the updated entries that have been made to both copies so that at least one of them reflects the correct status of calendered events for that owner.