Patent ID: 8027858

Claim:
A computer-assisted method for electronically creating a schedule plan of events for a representative by replicating one or more previously scheduled events, comprising the steps of: acquiring a source date range into a memory of a machine comprising at least two dates spanning at least two calendar days; identifying a set of previously scheduled events within the source date range within the memory of the machine; receiving a target date range input through a user interface; testing the target date range for a conflict with any of the previously schedule events using a process executing in the machine; assigning within the received target date range at least a first portion of the set of previously scheduled events to create the schedule plan on calendar dates that tested as having an absence of the conflict; augmenting the schedule plan by assigning to two or more calendar dates that are outside of the received target date range a second portion of the one or more previously scheduled events, wherein the previously scheduled events in the second portion occur on respective different calendar dates, wherein each of the previously scheduled events in the second portion tested as having the conflict, and wherein the assignment of the previously scheduled events in the second portion is to respective calendar dates outside of the received target date range that neither immediately precede nor succeed the conflict; and posting the schedule plan to a calendar maintained by the machine.