Map calendar graphical user interface with content-variable view levels

US11681424B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Malia Douglas · Seattle, US
• Rachel Sirkin · Seattle, US
• Aaron E. Erlandson · Kirkland, US
• Yoon Jin Lee · Yongin-si, KR
• Stephen White · Grand Rapids, US
• Erin Greenly · Seattle, US
• Evan W. Lavender · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 2021
• Grant date: Jun 20, 2023
• Expiry date: May 14, 2041

Classification

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

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for implementing a map calendar graphical user interface (GUI) including content-variable view levels is described herein. The method includes executing a map calendar application to provide a map calendar GUI surfaced on a display. The map calendar GUI includes interactive visualizations of a map calendar that are organized into content-variable view levels that relate to specific units of time. The method also includes displaying, via the surfaced map calendar GUI, interactive visualizations of different content-variable view levels such that non-level-specific calendar content items are displayed with respect to all content-variable view levels that encompass the time fragments corresponding to the non-level-specific calendar content items, while level-specific calendar content items are only displayed with respect to one or more content-variable view levels to which the level-specific calendar content items have been specifically linked, as determined by one or more user inputs.