Methods and systems for managing to do items or notes or electronic messages

US10068203B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Brendan J. Langoulant · San Francisco, US
• Stephen O. Lemay · San Francisco, US
• Scott Forstall · Mountain View, US
• David Paul Hearst · Redwood City, US
• Hernan R. Eguiluz · Cupertino, US
• Gregory N. Christie · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2011
• Grant date: Sep 4, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/109
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems for managing To do items and/or notes and/or emails (or other electronic messages) are described. A record, such as a To do item, in a database maintained locally by the data processing system is encoded into metadata. The metadata is sent as a false email message by an email client application executing on the data processing system to a remote email message server. An email client application executing on a remote processing system accesses the email message server and receives the false email message containing the metadata. The remote client application then either converts the metadata back into a database record editable at the remote processing system or presents a non-editable view of the database record, for example as an incoming email message.