User interface for an inkable family calendar
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAlice Jane Brush, Carman Neustadter
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Abstract
The subject application relates to a user interface(s), system(s), and/or methodology that facilitate improved management and coordination of activities, events, and occasions using a digital calendar format that can be accessed anywhere, changed or edited with ease, and readily synchronized on different devices. Various input modes can be employed including inking. New items can be created using an inking component and then dragged and dropped onto the appropriate day. Items can be modified or deleted and such alterations can be tracked to ensure that calendar changes can be monitored, and moreover, access to the calendar can be controlled.
Claims20
A user interface for a digital calendar system that facilitates improving activity awareness and coordination of schedules among multiple users comprising:
- one or more display views of a calendar grid;
- at least one data input area whereupon data is entered apart from the calendar grid;
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- one or more navigation components that facilitate dragging and dropping the data to a selected day on the calendar grid.
A digital calendar system comprising:
- a data input component that receives data corresponding to at least one calendar item;
- an item optimization component that determines at least one of a size and placement of the calendar item on at least one day on a calendar grid;
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- a display component that displays the calendar item on the at least one day according to existing items already occurring on the day.
A method that facilitates managing and organizing data on a digital calendar comprising:
- receiving data input;
- analyzing at least a portion of content of the data input;
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- displaying the data input on the digital calendar based in part on the content of the data input to optimize visibility of such data input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.