Preventing scheduling conflicts when proposing new times for calendar events
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorANGELA RICHARDS JONES
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Abstract
Calendar entries can be added indicating a proposed change to a calendar event to electronic calendars of all event attendees when the proposed change is pending approval. This puts the attendees on notice of a possible change in a time or place of the calendar event so that these attendees can choose not to schedule conflicting calendar events while the proposed change is pending.
Claims20
A method for preventing scheduling conflicts comprising:
- adding calendar entries indicating a proposed change to a calendar event to electronic calendars of all event attendees when the proposed change is pending approval.
A user interface for a calendaring application comprising:
- at least one proposal interface element indicating a pending proposed change to an original calendar entry, wherein the pending proposed change indicates an desired change to the original calendar event that has yet to be decided upon by a user in charge of the original calendar event, wherein the desired change is one submitted by a user other than a user of the user interface and other than the user in charge of the original calendar event.
A computer program product for preventing scheduling conflicts comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:
- computer usable program code configured to add calendar entries indicating a proposed change to a calendar event to electronic calendars of all event attendees when the proposed change is pending approval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.