Patent ID: 7925990

Claim:
A method of acknowledging a reminder in a calendaring application, comprising: storing a calendar entry corresponding to an event and a rule, the rule comprising the reminder of the event; presenting, at a device, an alert of the reminder according to the rule; receiving an acknowledgement of the reminder; displaying a global configuration option in a first graphical user interface that determines whether remote acknowledgement is globally permissible for all instances of the calendaring application operating in different devices; enabling messaging with the acknowledgement of the reminder when a user's first response to the global configuration option permits remote acknowledgement; disabling the messaging when the user's first response to the global configuration option denies remote acknowledgement; displaying a device-level configuration option in a second graphical user interface that determines whether each individual instance of the calendaring application participates in the remote acknowledgement of the reminder; when a selection is received in the device-level configuration option that permits the remote acknowledgement of an instance of the calendaring application, then communicating in real-time a message from the device to similarly acknowledge a pending reminder that corresponds to the same event in another instance of the calendaring application operating in another device; when the selection of the device-level configuration option denies participation in the remote acknowledgement, then declining to send the message from the device; and when the device-level configuration option is unspecified, then processing the message according to the global configuration option.