Patent ID: 7541940

Claim:
A computer implemented method for generating proximity-based task alarms in a mobile computing device, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving a set of tasks from a user, wherein receiving the set of tasks from the user further comprises: presenting a time-based alarm and a proximity-based task alarm to the user when the user first enters a task from the set of tasks on the mobile computing device, wherein a place button located on a display screen of the mobile computing device is selected by the user to link the set of tasks to one or more geographic locations within a set of geographic locations; receiving a selection from a user to link the set of tasks to one or more geographic locations within a set of geographic locations, wherein each task within the set of tasks has a unique task identifier associated with that particular task and each geographic location has a unique location identifier associated with that geographic location in a task list manager on the mobile computing device, wherein tasks from the set of tasks can be related or unrelated; responsive to setting the proximity-based task alarm, receiving a determination whether to associate the each task to a desired location located in a saved list of the set of geographic locations on the mobile computing device or to select a new location; responsive to a determination to select the new location, selecting the new location using a global positioning system navigational mapping feature, wherein the global positioning system navigational feature permits the user to select the new location on a map presented to the user on the display screen of the mobile computing device; determining whether a selected proximity for the proximity-based alarm has been selected; responsive to a determination that the selected proximity has not been selected, utilizing a default proximity as the selected proximity; determining whether the mobile computing device is within the selected proximity of the location for the each task; responsive to a determination that the mobile computing device is within the selected proximity of the location for the each task using the global positioning system navigational feature, triggering the proximity-based task alarm; and receiving an indication of completion of the each task by canceling the proximity-based task alarm or by resetting the proximity-based task alarm to receive another proximity-based task alarm when the user is within the selected proximity of at least one of the geographic locations.