Personal adaptive scheduling system and associated methods

US10445702B1 · kind B1 · utility

Inventor

• John Hunt · Hanstedt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/1097
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

System and associated methods for calculating and displaying time management objects in the form of an effort-scaled, Gantt-style bar chart characterized by a series of flexible, time-zone-specific work intervals representing time spans within which effort may be focused on work events. Activity bar segments representing certain work events comprise temporal (e.g., horizontal) extents representing time potentially available for expending effort. Display features include sequential, cascading arrangement of activity bar segments in the chart, preserved by automatically preventing temporal overlapping of activity bar segments and by automatically resequencing and rescheduling activity bar segments in the chart (from earlier to later) when the activities' priorities (from top to bottom in the To Do list) are changed. Display features further include the ongoing calculation and application of an adjustment experience factor and/or interruption experience factor when scheduling future activities.