International Business Machines Corporation

David Robert Miller

David J Schell

Leslie M Cahill

An electronic scheduling calendar is made more useful to a user by merging to-do list items onto an event list schedule. A user can assign priorities to the to-do list items and estimates of how much time is required to complete each item. Then, upon request by the user, the to-do list items will be placed onto the event list in an available time slot on an available day.

Method and system for automatically integrating scheduled work items

A pointer associated with a computer pointing device is used to give instructions to the user of a computer program as to what actions are expected/required from the user. Upon placing the pointer in a predesignated action area of a panel of the computer program, the pointer is automatically changed to an action required pointer to indicate what the user is expected and/or required to do. Additionally, the pointer is used to directly designate a time, for example, a start and/or stop time for an event to be scheduled on an electronic calendar program. By placing the pointer at the appropriate time on a time line and activating the pointing device, the time is selected.

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Keller, TX, United States of America

David Robert Miller