US 5,855,006 AGranted

Personal activity scheduling apparatus

AssigneeHumware

InventorsMark Alan Huemoeller, John Walter Huemoeller, II

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Abstract

The personal activity scheduling system accesses data from various sources to provide the user with information that is required to enable the user to conveniently and expeditiously schedule activities without requiring access to other sources of information. The personal activity scheduling system can include schedules of various sports activities, cultural events, birthdays and anniversaries, professional meetings and deadlines, and any other temporally based items of interest to the particular individual. Each of these temporally based activities can be associated with data representative of information required by the user to schedule an activity from the list of potential activities into the individual's personal calendar as well as make reservations and ticket purchases using this system.

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Dependent claims

A calendar system executing on a processor, which has a real-time clock, for temporally coordinating application data, comprising:

means, responsive to said real-time clock, for maintaining a time scheduling calendar;
at least one application which produces application data, comprising at least one of:
1.) trivia means comprising:
means for storing data indicative of date based trivia,
means, responsive to data output by said real-time clock indicative of a present date, for retrieving data from said means for storing corresponding to at least one of said date based trivia,
means for displaying said date based trivia;
2.) trivia quiz program means, comprising:
means for enabling a user to be tested on trivia knowledge,
means, responsive to a user scoring greater than a predetermined score in said trivia quiz program, for printing a predetermined coupon for redemption at a predetermined commercial establishment;
3.) means for displaying advertising, including at least one of:
coupon means, comprising:
means for storing data indicative of predetermined coupons,
means, responsive to data output by said real-time clock indicative of a present date, for retrieving data from said means for storing corresponding to at least one of said predetermined coupons,
means for transmitting said retrieved data to a printer for printing said predetermined coupon;
means for loading said advertising into said calendar system from an external interface;
means for integrating said application data into said time scheduling calendar;
and
means for displaying said time scheduling calendar, containing said application data, to a user.

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A method for temporally coordinating application data, produced by at least one application, with a calendar system executing on a processor, which has a real-time clock, comprising the steps of:

maintaining, in response to said real-time clock, a time scheduling calendar;
executing at least one application which produces application data, comprising at least one of:
1.) trivia application, comprising:
storing, data in a memory indicative of date based trivia,
retrieving, in response to data output by said real-time clock indicative of a present date, for retrieving data from said memory corresponding to at least one of said date based trivia,
displaying to display said date based trivia;
2.) testing a user on trivia knowledge using a trivia quiz program,
printing, in response to a user scoring greater than a predetermined score in said trivia quiz program, a predetermined coupon for redemption at a predetermined commercial establishment;
3.) displaying advertising, including at least one of:
generating coupons, comprising:
storing data in said memory indicative of predetermined coupons,
retrieving, in response to data output by said real-time clock indicative of a present date, data from said memory corresponding to at least one of said predetermined coupons,
printing said predetermined coupon;
loading said advertising into said calendar system from an external interface;
integrating said application data into said time scheduling calendar;
and
displaying said time scheduling calendar, containing said application data, to a user on a display device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.