US 4,162,610 AGranted

Electronic calendar and diary

OwnerAlfred B. Levineinventor

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Abstract

An electronic schedule calendar and diary for storing in an electronic memory a plurality of future calendar appointments and events for each of a plurality of daily, weekly, or other date interval periods, and enabling the selective retrieval and electronic display of said plural appointments and events for any selected time period. The electronic diary employs manually or remotely controlled entry of said future appointments and events in digital form; manually or remotely controlled correction and updating of said data; and manually controlled retrieval or readout into a visual electronic display. A time-of-day electronic clock may also be included together with an automatic alarm for providing an alarm for each selected appointment or event entered into the memory. In a systems version, a plurality of electronic diaries are employed with a central memory or monitor. Each diary is selectively placed in communication with the central memory for transfer of data therebetween.

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Dependent claims

An electronic diary, calendar, and clock comprising:

an electronic clock for cumulatively determining the actual date and time-of-day as a number of functions including minutes, hours, days, and months,
an electronic visual display for displaying the actual time-of-day, day and month,
an electronic memory means for storing a plurality of time-of-day appointments for each of a plurality of different days, including present and future days,
manually controlled means coupled to said memory for selecting, at will, each of the present and future days, individually, and for entering into and storing in said memory for that selected day digital data corresponding to a plurality of different time-of-day appointments,
said manually controlled means including manually controlled correction and update means for selectively changing and updating, at will, in the memory the digital data for any given appointment time-of-day for any of said given present and future days, thereby to enable the schedule of time appointments in said memory for any given day to be corrected and rendered current at any time,
said manually controlled means including manually controlled retrieval means for selectively accessing said electronic memory, at will, for any one of the plurality of different days, and for reading out the stored schedule of time-of-day appointments to said electronic display for concurrently displaying the plural appointment times for that day.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.