Patent ID: 7181689

Claim:
A method for organizing a plurality of calendar events by providing an appearance of a single user calendar on an electronic device, the method comprising: acquiring the plurality of calendar events; synchronizing the plurality of calendar events; selecting a display preference for the plurality of calendar events by: selecting a reference user; selecting a reference category; grouping calendar events that belong to the reference user and to the reference category; determining whether each of the plurality of calendar events belongs to the reference user; determining whether each of the plurality of calendar events belongs to the reference category; and determining whether a calendar event detail setting has been disabled; and allowing to display a message associated with each of the grouped calendar events and to display only the category of the calendar event belonging to a user other than the reference user and belonging to the reference category upon determining that the calendar event detail setting has been disabled; and displaying at least one calendar event of the plurality of calendar events on the electronic device based upon the display preference.