Patent ID: 8719717

Claim:
A method for sharing a calendar database with a mobile computing device, the calendar database stored at a second computing device, the mobile computing device comprising a processer and, interconnected thereto, a display, a memory and a photo acquisition module, the method comprising: acquiring, at the mobile computing device, an image of a graphical indicator of the calendar database, at least a portion of the calendar database and an identifier of the calendar database both graphically embedded in the graphical indicator; and processing the image of the graphical indicator to: extract the portion of the calendar database; extract, at the processor, the identifier of the calendar database to access the calendar database; store the portion of the calendar database in the memory; provide, at the display, a representation of the portion in a calendar application of the mobile computing device; periodically access the calendar database to acquire updated calendar data from the calendar database; and deleting the portion of the calendar database from the memory when the updated calendar data fails to contain new event data for at least one of a given number of times and a given time period.