BIFOCAL VIEW: A NOVEL CALENDAR USER INTERFACE

Patent №

US 8,069,417

Granted

2011-11-29

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

nlp · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11537523

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates creating a calendar that enables optimized awareness of at least one event. An interface component can receive data related to an event. An enhanced scheduler component can create a calendar that enables a bifocal calendar view to display an event correlated to a first date with a first time-scale and an event correlated to a second date with a second time-scale.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.90
Natural language0.70
AI hardware0.08
Knowledge representation0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 183300055

Assignors

BRUSH, ALICE JANE BERNHEIM, FISHER, DANYEL A., MAYANS, JASON

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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