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Calendar event description abbreviation
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1983-11-04
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Granted: 1986-05-27
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Expires: 2003-11-04
Abstract
Abstract A method of building a monthly calendar screen having abbreviated event descriptions directly translated from event descriptions on day screens. Day screens are built from keyed in dates, times, and descriptions of events related to the dates and times. Monthly screens are built by combining and abbreviating corresponding day screens. Keying and coding during day screen building, and processing steps during monthly screen building are reduced by positionally locating the first characters of day screen event descriptions, time-wise, within the monthly screens.
Inventors
- 👤 Donald E. Curtis
- 👤 James P. Vincent
- 👤 Mary E. Weidmann
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 05:41
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q10/00; G06Q10/10; G06Q10/109
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
66 words
A method of building a readily interpretable monthly calendar, said method comprising: (a) keying time related event descriptions for building daily screens; (b) building a monthly calendar with days of a month indicated thereon; (c) locating the first character of an event description for a day from a daily screen; and (d) positioning said first character time-wise relative to a day indication on said monthly calendar.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
66 words
A method of building a readily interpretable monthly calendar, said method comprising: (a) keying time related event descriptions for building daily screens; (b) building a monthly calendar with days of a month indicated thereon; (c) locating the first character of an event description for a day from a daily screen; and (d) positioning said first character time-wise relative to a day indication on said monthly calendar.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
17 words
A method according to claim 1 including keying times for said event descriptions when building daily screens.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 1 including building a monthly calendar having a grid forming blocks for each day of a month.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
A method according to claim 3 including dividing each block into a number of time increments.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method according to claim 4 including marking said time increments for which there are no corresponding event descriptions.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method according to claim 5 including providing space before and after a portion of said time increment divided block for indicating before and after working hour events.
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