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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2017
Applicants:

Owen Pingchi Cheung, Hillsborough, CA (US);

Mary Elizabeth Kroenung, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rongfei Geng, San Jose, CA (US);

Peter Allen Vogel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Katja Nicola Spreckelmeyer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Owen Pingchi Cheung, Hillsborough, CA (US);

Mary Elizabeth Kroenung, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rongfei Geng, San Jose, CA (US);

Peter Allen Vogel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Katja Nicola Spreckelmeyer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/04 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 40/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/04 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1097 (2013.01); G06Q 40/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for the automated time tracking of events in a calendar and the use of the same to generate invoices, which includes detecting an event record creation request received from a user, monitoring, based on the event record creation request, user input including event details for an event record, identifying a control character within the user input, while monitoring the user input, populating, in response to identifying the control character, a list comprising one or more contacts from a contact group of the user, displaying, to the user, the list of the one or more contacts, receiving a selection of a contact from within the list, and inserting an identifier of the contact within the event record, based on the selection.


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