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

US8219920B2 · 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: Jun 10, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 10, 2012
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2029

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. On exemplary method includes receiving an input to create a To do item based on a portion of an email record, such as a received email, and creating, in response to the input, the To do item. Another exemplary method includes storing a note having a To do item in the note, the note being stored as an entry in a note database which is separate from a To do database and storing the To do item in the To do database and receiving an input within either a note view or a To do view to edit the To do item and causing the note to be edited and causing the To do item to be edited in response to the input.