US 2017/0323225 A1 · CALENDAR BASED TASK AND TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Abstract

A software solution for managing, sorting and ranking lists of tasks and integrating task and time management, such that tasks can be automatically or manually assigned to specified time blocks. Users can monitor the relationship between volume of tasks and available time in which to complete them. The solution and method can be applied to individual task lists as well as to the management of time across multiple projects and can be employed either by individuals or by collaborative groups. The solution and method employ multiple filters, sorts and handling rules to embody users' personal planning preferences. It can be used to manage task lists both with and without employing a scheduling component. The solution can interoperate with existing computer- and web-based calendar software and can use third-party calendar clients to display its output and to accept input from users.

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Dependent claims

An improved iterative computer-implemented method for continuously organizing and updating a plurality of task records for output to a user device in a rules-based sequence according to task attribute filters maintained by a task management module, the method performed exclusively on a computing device having access to a communications network, the computing device further having an interface for receiving data inputs from at least one of a user input device and the communications network, the computing device further having a processor for executing a plurality of stored special-purpose processing instructions encoding the method in a computer-based data structure format, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, from at least one of the user input device and the communications network via the interface, data representing an entry of the plurality of task records, each of the task records having at least one corresponding task attribute;
electronically storing a superset of the task records with their at least one corresponding task attributes in a database maintained by the task management software module in a memory of the computing device;
creating a record in the database for a time corresponding to a period of time defined by specific start and end times;
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receiving a handling rule comprising at least one condition for at least one of:
affiliating a task with a time record, removing a task's affiliation with a time record, modifying a task's affiliation to a time record, modifying an existing time record, creating a new time record, deleting an existing time record, and modifying a task record to facilitate affiliation with a time record.

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An improved iterative computer-implemented method for continuously organizing and updating a plurality of task records and time records for output to a user device in a rules-based sequence according to task attribute filters and time attribute filters maintained by a task management module, the method performed exclusively on a computing device having access to a communications network, the computing device further having an interface for receiving data inputs from at least one of a user input device and the communications network, the computing device further having a processor for executing a plurality of stored special-purpose processing instructions encoding the method in a computer-based data structure format, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, from at least one of the user input device and the communications network via the interface, data representing an entry of at least one of:
a task record having a corresponding task attribute, a time record having a corresponding time attribute, a list, and a smart list;
electronically storing a superset of said records with their corresponding attributes in a database maintained by the task management software module in a memory of the computing device;
creating a calendar format record in a calendar database corresponding to at least one of a task, a time, a static list, and a dynamic list;
synchronizing the calendar database with the database of task and time records;
synchronizing the calendar database record with at least one of calendar client software, a second calendar database and a non-calendar database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Calendar based task and time management systems and methods

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Calendar based task and time management systems and methods

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