Calendar Repair Assistant
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsVanessa C. Feliberti, Cliff M. Don, Firdosh R. Ghyara, Sina Hakami, Matthias Leibmann, Roberto Ribeiro Da Fonseca Mendes, Paul David Tischhauser
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Abstract
Calendar repair may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event, and an event property of the second event may be updated to match a corresponding event property of the first event.
Claims20
A method for providing calendar repair, the method comprising:
- creating a calendar event that is associated with an organizer and a plurality of attendees, the calendar event including event properties comprising details about an event;
- storing the calendar event on a first calendar that is associated with the organizer;
- copying the calendar event to a plurality of other calendars that are associated with the plurality of attendees;
- performing a comparison of the calendar event on the first calendar with the calendar events on the plurality of other calendars for locating differing calendar events, wherein the performing the comparison includes determining whether the event properties listed in each of the calendar events differs;
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- in response to locating the differing calendar events, updating the differing calendar events.
A system for providing calendar repair, the system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- create a calendar event that is associated with an organizer and a plurality of attendees, the calendar event including event properties comprising details about an event;
- store the calendar event on a first calendar that is associated with the organizer;
- copy the calendar event to a plurality of other calendars that are associated with the plurality of attendees;
- perform a comparison of the calendar event on the first calendar with the calendar events on the plurality of other calendars for locating differing calendar events, wherein performing the comparison includes determining whether the event properties listed in each of the calendar events differs;
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- in response to locating the differing calendar events, update the event properties listed in the differing calendar events.
A computer-readable storage device which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for providing calendar repair, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- creating a calendar event that is associated with an organizer and a plurality of attendees, the calendar event including event properties comprising details about an event;
- storing the calendar event on a first calendar that is associated with the organizer;
- copying the calendar event to a plurality of other calendars that are associated with the plurality of attendees;
- performing a comparison of the calendar event on the first calendar with the calendar events on the plurality of other calendars for locating differing calendar events, wherein the performing the comparison includes determining whether the event properties listed in each of the calendar events differs;
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- in response to locating the differing calendar events, updating the differing calendar events.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.