Predicting and adjusting users' working hours and electronic calendar events

US7318040B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• J. Smith Doss · Raleigh, US
• Renee M. Kovales · Cary, US
• Diane P. Pozefsky · Chapel Hill, US
• Robert J. Sundstrom · Cary, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 17, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2008
• Expiry date: Jan 31, 2026

Classification

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

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for predicting and adjusting future working hours and calendar events for users of electronic calendars. Predictions may be made based on historical calendar data (e.g., a user's scheduled working hours/events and that user's actual working hours/events); based on updates to working hours or events; and/or based on external information. Rules are used in preferred embodiments to indicate the actions that should be taken when a particular condition occurs.