Patent ID: 9269064
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a plurality of for-your-information events in a computer system, the for-your-information events each including an event time field that indicates a scheduled time for the for-your-information event, the computer system refraining from automatically blocking the scheduled times of the for-your-information events on a main calendar in response to receiving the for-your-information events, the receiving of the for-your-information events in the computer system being part of receiving a calendar of for-your-information events as a calendar over a computer network, the calendar of for-your-information events comprising the plurality of for-your-information events, and the calendar of for-your-information events being designated as a for-your-information calendar separate from the main calendar in the computer system; receiving a regular event in the computer system, the received regular event including a time field that indicates a scheduled time for the received regular event; the computer system automatically blocking the scheduled time for the received regular event on the main calendar in response to receiving the received regular event; displaying a representation of the received regular event in a main calendar display region for the main calendar, the main calendar display region comprising a plurality of representations of regular events; displaying representations of the for-your-information events in a secondary display region, the secondary display region comprising a plurality of representations of the for-your-information events, the main calendar display region and the secondary display region being displayed at the same time, while scheduled times for the for-your-information events are not blocked on the main calendar; and displaying a user interface control that is configured to be selected by user input to convert a selected for-your-information event to a converted regular event and to block a scheduled time of the selected for-your-information event on the main calendar for the converted regular event.