US 10,650,033 B2Granted

Calendar user interface search and interactivity features

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsRuediger A Kinast, Rachel Sirkin, Christopher C Knestrick, Pankaj S Luthra, Thomas Christopher Laflin, Ashita Khetan

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Abstract

Systems and devices for presenting coordinated event search results in a user interface for a calendar are disclosed. In an example, operations include: generating a calendar surface user interface, to display at least one event in a calendar view; receiving a search query for a search of the calendar; generating a search result user interface, to display events from a result of the search query; and updating the calendar surface based on the search result, with the display of the events in the calendar surface being updated based on a match with the search query. As various examples, based on the search results or the search query: the search result portion may indicate that a corresponding event is displayed within the calendar surface portion; graphical emphasis effects may be applied to search results or events; or graphical de-emphasis effects may be applied to search results or events.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A computing system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory device including instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to perform operations that present event search results in a user interface for a calendar of events, with operations to:
generate a calendar surface portion of the user interface, wherein the calendar surface portion displays events from the calendar of events and is in a calendar format;
receive a search query for a search of the calendar of events;
search the calendar of events with text that match a string of the search query;
generate a search result based on the search, the search result comprising two or more events from the calendar of events;
cause a display of the search result as a listing in a list surface portion of the user interface;
select a first chronological event from the listing in the list surface portion as a selected event;
and
render the calendar surface portion of the user interface to display a time period which includes the selected event, wherein the selected event is displayed in the calendar surface portion based on a match with the first chronological event displayed in the list surface portion;
wherein the display of the selected event in the list surface portion and the display of the selected event in the calendar surface portion have corresponding graphical indicators based on the match with the search query.

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A method, comprising a plurality of operations executed with a processor and memory of a computing system, for presenting event search results in a user interface for a calendar of events, with the plurality of operations including:

generating a calendar surface portion of the user interface, wherein the calendar surface portion displays events from the calendar of events and is in a calendar format;
receiving a search query for a search of the calendar of events;
searching the calendar of events with text that match a string of the search query;
generate a search result based on the search, the search result comprising two or more events from the calendar of events;
cause a display of the search result as a listing in a list surface portion of the user interface;
selecting a first chronological event from the listing in the list surface portion as a selected event;
and
rendering the calendar surface portion of the user interface to display a time period which includes the selected event, wherein the selected event is displayed in the calendar surface portion based on a match with the first chronological event displayed in the list surface portion;
wherein the display of the selected event in the list surface portion and the display of the selected event in the calendar surface portion have corresponding graphical indicators based on the match with the search query.

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A non-transitory device-readable storage medium, the device-readable storage medium including instructions for presenting event search results in a user interface for a calendar of events, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor and memory of a computing system, causes the processor to perform operations to:

generate a calendar surface portion of the user interface, wherein the calendar surface portion displays events from the calendar of events and is in a calendar format;
receive a search query for a search of the calendar of events;
search the calendar of events with text that match a string of the search query;
generate a search result based on the search, the search result comprising two or more events from the calendar of events;
cause a display of the search result as a listing in a list surface portion of the user interface;
select a first chronological event from the listing in the list surface portion as a selected event;
and
render the calendar surface portion of the user interface to display a time period which includes the selected event, wherein the selected event is displayed in the calendar surface portion based on a match with the first chronological event displayed in the list surface portion;
wherein the display of the selected event in the list surface portion and the display of the selected event in the calendar surface portion have corresponding graphical indicators based on the match with the search query.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.