Patent ID: 7711717

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for providing synchronization between a calendaring application and a Line Of Business (LOB) service, the method comprising: scanning records of the calendaring application; determining recurring bound items in the calendaring application records for the synchronization; creating an original bound item for each recurring item occurrence and each recurring item exception, wherein the original bound item comprises at least one of an appointment, a meeting, and a task in the calendaring application, the at least one of an appointment, a meeting, and a task having extended properties which are managed by the calendaring application and are related to at least one of a business process and business data associated with the LOB service, the extended properties comprising at least one of project code and a client identifier; creating a parallel bound item for each original bound item in a client data store; deleting the original bound item after a corresponding parallel bound item is created; and synchronizing the bound items with the LOB service, wherein each bound item is presented to the LOB service as a standalone bound item, wherein the standalone bound item comprises a bound item which is detached from the recurring bound items in the calendaring application records for synchronization as an individual appointment.