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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
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);
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);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
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.