International Business Machines Corporation

Charles M Cree

Keith J Scully

Harinder S Singh

Grady J Landry

Margaret Gardner MacPhail

A method of exchanging entries on calendars being maintained by a first and a second calendar users. An event is automatically scheduled on a second calendar if a classification which is associated with the event is higher than any previous scheduled event for the same time slot. A reply is prepared and transmitted to the first calendar user which requested the scheduling of the vent regarding the status of the second user in regards to the scheduled event. Subsequently, if the status of the second user changes in regards to the event, a subsequent reply is prepared and transmitted to the first user setting forth the changed status.

System for exchanging electronic calendars based on entries and

A first end user creates an original note and enters any additional attributes to enable an electronic mail system to deliver the note to an intended second end user. The first end user enters data which informs the second end user of the first end user's intent relating whether the original note should be appended to the reply note. Thereafter, the system delivers the note to the intended recipient end user and appends the original to any reply generated by the recipient end user based upon the intent entered into the system.

Methods of appending a reply in an electronic mail system

An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system in which calendar entries that have been made for the same time span independently on two different copies of the calendar can be automatically and interactively reconciled. The method permits a calendar owner to obtain a machine readable transportable copy of his calendar on a diskette, to update that copy when the master copy is not available to him because of a business trip, for example, and upon his return to automatically and interactively reconcile the updated entries that have been made to both copies so that at least one of them reflects the correct status of calendered events for that owner.

Method for automatically reconciling entries on two copies of

An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system that has a plurality of interactive type work stations (terminals or personal computers) connected directly or indirectly to a host processor. The method assists a calendar owner who receives a notice at his work station requesting his involvement in a future event that is being calendared by another calendar owner on the system, to manually or automatically designate in the reply a temporary alternate to attend the meeting being calendared or a permenant alternate to attend all future meetings without affecting his status in the system as a receipient of the meeting notice.

Electronic calendaring method which provides for automatic assignment of

An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system having a plurality of interactive type workstations connected to a host processing unit in which the event calendaring process permits the availability of requested event resources to be confirmed automatically during the calendaring of certain events such as meetings which involve participation of a plurality of other calendar owners that are designated in a 'Names List' unique to that meeting.

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Charles M Cree