Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for contstructing and maintaining a calendaring interface
AssigneeGoldman, Sachs & Co.
InventorAnne Marie Darling
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Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatus, and means for managing an event are provided including creating an event, causing event information to be transmitted to a first group of internal users for communication to a plurality of external users, receiving requests for attendance, creating a final event schedule, causing confirmation information to be transmitted, and generating event summary reports upon completion of said event.
Claims26
A method for creating an event, the method comprising:
- selecting an event type from among a plurality of available event types;
- associating a plurality of subevent types with said selected event type, said subevent types selected from a plurality of available subevent types;
- providing event and subevent details for said selected event type and said selected subevent types;
- and
- establishing access privileges for said event, wherein said access privileges are automatically associated with each of said subevents.
An apparatus for generating a single source calendaring interface, in a client side data processing system, said apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of data sources from a server side data processing system, wherein a plurality of data feeds are constructed from said data sources,
- a graphic user interface constructed from said plurality of feeds, wherein said graphic user interface further comprises:
- a Search Region,
- a View Region,
- a Details Region, which further comprises
- a Sign Up option,
- a General option,
- a People option, and,
- a Location option,
- and whereby each of the Regions are User configurable.
A method for managing an event, comprising:
- operating a user device to create an event, said event suitable for a plurality of external users, said event including event information defining a time, a location, and a subject;
- causing event information to be transmitted to a first group of internal users for communication to said plurality of external users;
- receiving requests for attendance from said plurality of external users;
- creating a final event schedule based on said requests for attendance;
- causing confirmation information to be transmitted to said first group of internal users for communication to said plurality of external users;
- and
- generating event summary reports upon completion of said event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.