Schedule management system with common memory for multiple users

Claim 1

A schedule management system comprising a plurality of user stations; command means and display means coupled to a schedule data storage unit at each of said user stations for entering, displaying, and storing scheduling data; management table means individually associated with each user station for storing information indicating regular schedule data entered by the user at the individually associated station and auxiliary schedule data entered by a user at a station other than the individually associated station; said schedule data being stored in said schedule data storage unit under addresses accompanying entered data; a plurality of dispersive management means, each of said dispersive management means being coupled between an individually associated one of said schedule data storage units and the management table means associated with that user station, each of said dispersive management means determining from received data and the management table associated therewith whether said received data is related to said regular or to said auxiliary data; means for intercoupling the plurality of dispersive management means and schedule data storage units so that each dispersive management means directs received data to any of said schedule data storage units at a station other than the individually associated station; and said dispersive management means including means responsive to a detection of received auxiliary data for directing a storage of the auxiliary data in the schedule data storage unit individually associated with the user station identified by the address accompanying said auxiliary data, and said dispersive management means including means responsive to a detection of regular data for not directing a storage of the received regular data.