Patent ID: 8510145

Claim:
A system for event planning, the system comprising: a portal operable, using a processor, to obtain a list of guests for a first planned event and to access a gift registry operable to record a list of gifts; a guest list manager operable to manage the list of guests for the first planned event, and to track whether each guest is also an invitee to a second planned event related to the first planned event; a guest list database operable to associate guest-related information with respective ones of the guests, and to associate event-related information with one or more of the first planned event and the second planned event; a gift tracker operable to manage the list of gifts, to associate each gift in the list of gifts with at least one of the first planned event or the second planned event, and to associate respective gifts in the list of gifts with respective guests; a task manager operable to generate a series of predefined tasks pertaining to at least one of the first planned event or the second planned event, to modify one or more of the predefined tasks and to add new tasks in response to user input, and to rank selected ones of the predefined and new tasks based upon a ranking criteria; a timeline manager operable to obtain the predefined and new tasks from the task manager, and to receive a timeframe boundary from the task manager or from user input, and a graphical user interface generator operable to display a timeline according to the timeframe boundary, the timeline identifying at least some of the predefined and new tasks falling within the timeframe boundary, wherein a higher priority task is more prominently displayed on the user display along the timeline than a lower priority task and wherein a set of highest priority tasks are simultaneously displayed on the user display separately from the timeline, and the graphical user interface generator is operable to generate a report in association with the gift tracker, the report identifying each gift in the list of gifts, whether that gift is associated with the first planned event, and whether that gift is associated with the second planned event.