Processing life and work events

US8271882B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Botscheck · Foster City, US
• Udo Waibel · Foster City, US
• Mirjam Sonnleithner · San Francisco, US
• Monty Gray · Menlo Park, US
• Wolfram Hepp · Heidelberg, DE
• Martin Zurmuehl · Östringen, DE
• Heiko Schultze · Wiesloch, DE
• Mikio Takagi · Angelbachtal, DE
• Wolfgang Kuhn · Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, DE
• Herbert Penzkofer · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2012
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S715/963
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method provides a user with access to resources associated with a life or work event by enabling the user to perform certain operations, including specifying a list of one or more tasks corresponding to the event, specifying one or more resources associated with each task, indicating a task order (including an indication of whether two or more tasks in the task list are to be performed in an order-dependent or in an order-independent manner), and formatting the task list into a presentation format. A system with user interface controls enables a user to perform certain operations, including designating an event, generating a list of tasks associated with the event, and specifying an order for performance of the tasks in the task list that may be followed in processing an instance of the event.