Patent ID: 6966037

Claim:
A method for displaying calendar information in a display associated with an electronic device, comprising: organizing a plurality of calendar entries into a hierarchy comprising a plurality of calendar groups, at least one of which calendar groups having at least one sublevel of calendar subgroups; and displaying panels on a display associated with an electronic device, the panels being arranged into two bars of panels with a common focus panel at the intersection of the two bars of panels, each of the panels being linked to and identifying one of (a) one of the plurality of calendar entries, (b) one of the calendar groups, and (c) one of the calendar subgroups, wherein the focus panel identifies (a) a currently selectable lowest level in the hierarchy and optionally (b) the next higher level, if any, wherein levels, if any, in the hierarchy higher than that displayed in the focus panel are identified in one of (a) succeeding adjoining panels of a first of the two bars, other panels of the first bar identifying highest level groups in the hierarchy, and (b) other panels of the first bar identifying groups in the hierarchy in the next higher level identified in the focus panel; and wherein panels of the second of the two bars each identify one of (a) calendar entries, if any, (b) calendar groups, if any, and (c) calendar subgroups, if any, of the same level in the hierarchy as the currently selectable lowest level in the hierarchy identified in the focus panel.