Automated data updating in distributed notices

US8612537B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Kulvir S. Bhogal · Pflugerville, US
• Lisa Seacat DeLuca · Baltimore, US
• William A. Griffith · Austin, US
• Yen-Kwang Lin · Raleigh, US
• Dana L. Price · Surf City, US
• Mark W. Talbot · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2010
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 6, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for automated data updating of notices in a calendaring and scheduling (C&S) system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automated data updating of notices in a C&S system can be provided. The method can include composing a C&S document in a C&S system executing in memory by at least one processor of a computer. The method further can include noticing different users addressed for the C&S document and adding to the C&S document a reference to variable data stored separately from the C&S document. The method yet further can include detecting a change in the variable data. Finally, the method can include transmitting notice to the different users of the change in variable data. In one aspect of the embodiment, transmitting notice to the different users of the change in variable data can include flagging the C&S document as having changed.