Patent ID: 7506333
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for managing foreign holidays for a computer application, comprising: receiving email information relating to foreign countries that a user communicates with; calculating, based on the email information, a respective count for each of the foreign countries that indicates a number of times the user has communicated with respect to the foreign countries; comparing the respective count for each of the foreign countries to a threshold; through a software user interface, offering the user an option to add one or more foreign holidays corresponding to a particular one of the foreign countries to the computer application, when the respective count for the particular one of the foreign countries exceeds the threshold; and through a software user interface, offering the user an option to specify a different country than an actual originating country from among the foreign countries that the user communicates with, and wherein the respective count is respectively calculated for the actual originating country and for the different country to allow consideration of both a home country as the different country and a visiting country as the actual originating country for a particular individual.