Integrated calendar and phonemail system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas E. Chefalas, Alexei A. Karve, Steve Mastrianni, Ajay Mohindra
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Abstract
An integrated calendar-phone mail system accepts input from a workstation to a calendar or to a voice-mail program periodically updating the phone mail data with new data from the calendar and updating the calendar data with new data from the phone mail.
Claims36
A computer-implemented method of operating a calendar database in a computer, from which update calendar data are displayed in response to a display request from a user and of operating a phone mail database from which update phone data are played in response to a play request from a user, comprising the steps of:
- entering update data in one of said calendar database and phone mail database;
- converting update calendar data into converted phone data and entering said converted phone data into said phone mail database;
- and
- converting update phone data into converted calendar data and entering said converted calendar data into said calendar database, whereby said calendar database and said phone database both contain common data.
An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium readable by a computer having a memory, the medium tangibly embodying one or more programs of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps for operating a calendar database in a computer, from which update calendar data are displayed in response to a display request from a user and of operating a phone mail database from which update phone data are played in response to a play request from a user, comprising:
- entering update data in one of said calendar database and phone mail database;
- converting update calendar data into converted phone data and entering said converted phone data into said phone mail database;
- and
- converting update phone data into converted calendar data and entering said converted calendar data into said calendar database, whereby said calendar database and said phone database both contain common data.
A computerized apparatus for operating a calendar database in a computer, from which update calendar data are displayed in response to a display request from a user and for operating a phone mail database from which update phone data are played in response to a play request from a user, comprising:
- at least one computer;
- at least one program, executed by the computer, for entering update data in one of said calendar database and phone mail database;
- for converting update calendar data into converted phone data and entering said converted phone data into said phone mail database;
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- for converting update phone data into converted calendar data and entering said converted calendar data into said calendar database, whereby said calendar database and said phone database both contain common data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.