International Business Machines Corporation

Kenton R Milligan

Michael D Pfeifer

Peter John Johnson

Michael Leonard Nelson

Jerrold Martin Heyman

Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin

Michael W Cain

Antonio Pirraglia

Embodiments of the invention relate to a message based scheduling tool employed to function with an electronic calendar. As messages are transmitting between clients, a tool is employed to parse the messages to search for one or more string(s) of characters characteristic of a meeting. Based upon these characteristics and the parsing, the electronic calendars are searched to find an available time slot on both calendars in which a meeting can take place, and, if an available time is found, the meeting is scheduled and the clients are sent notification of the scheduling.

Automatic scheduling tool

A schema diagrammer aids a database administrator or other user in maintaining and managing a database in a computer system. The schema diagrammer allows the user to define 'user-defined relationships' between objects in the database. The schema diagrammer generates a graphical schema diagram or map that indicates the objects and their relationships to one another. The relationships that are displayed include both the formal relationships defined programmatically by the database itself and the user-defined relationships.

User-defined relationships for diagramming user-defined database relations

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Kenton R Milligan