Blackberry Corporation

Jared Daniel Lepic

Bartholomew Alexander Boeckner

Kieran Patrick Cunney

Grant Ross Elliott

Andrew Joseph Klamut

Christopher James Runstedler

Samer Fahmy

Matthew Donald Hodgson

Minh Pham

Clifford Hung

Jan Anthony Korsman

Morgan Trevor McLaughlin

Adam John Vaz

Jeffrey Tyson Armstrong

Daniel Ian Ackland

Cody Bryant

A method and an electronic device are provided that include receiving at the electronic device a start and an end of an out-of-office period and an out-of-office preference for responding to new invitations to events occurring during the out-of-office period received at the electronic device, receiving at the electronic device a new invitation to an event occurring during the out-of-office period, and automatically transmitting at the electronic device a response to the new invitation based on the out-of-office preference.

Electronic device and method for automatically responding to calendar event notifications

An electronic user deviceis disclosed in which a user interfacefor an email application is displayed. The user interfaceincludes an email threadand a selectable calendar look-up banner. Upon selection of the calendar look-up bannerthe user deviceis configured to retrieve electronic calendars respectively associated with the email users identified in the email thread. A score is then calculated for a plurality of time slots in the retrieved electronic calendars, and the time slots are displayed according to their score. A user can then make a selection of one of the time slots. A calendar event is then populated with information derived from the email threadand is sent to each of the email addresses in the thread, to be added to their electronic calendars.

Calendar and email application

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Waterloo, Canada

Jared Daniel Lepic