Achieving recurring item recordings from calendaring applications over LOB systems

US7711717B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Rakesh Gupta · Kingsport, US
• David Koronthaly · Sammamish, US
• Burra Gopal · Bellevue, US
• Rolando Jimenez Salgado · Redmond, US
• Shyam Sundar Jayshankar · Hyderabad, IN
• Satish Kumar Chittamuru · Hyderabad, IN
• Himesh Shah · Bothell, US
• Arvind Krishnan · Thousand Oaks, US
• Sushil Kumar · Center Valley, US
• Sai Shankar · Irvine, US
• Ashish Singhal · Glendale, US
• Jagdish Singh · Hyderabad, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 20, 2007
• Grant date: May 4, 2010
• Expiry date: May 18, 2028

Classification

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

Abstract

Recurring appointment items in a calendaring application are synchronized and recorded in a backend Line Of Business (LOB) service. Items marked in the calendaring application for time recording are used to create a recurring bound item with extended properties. A sweeper module scans on every run the mailbox for such recurring bound items. Occurrences of bound recurring appointments, which occur between the last scan and the current scan, are determined and detached from the corresponding recurring series, such that standalone bound items, are created for such occurrences that can be recognized by an LOB application. Entries for bound items are retrieved from a client data store and synchronized it with the backend LOB service through a create, update, or delete operation request.