Patent ID: 7596213

Claim:
A multiple access calendar portal system comprising: a wireless internet server communicatively coupled to a personal information manager, wherein the personal information manager maintains an electronic calendar for a user and notifies the user of occurrence of calendar events, the wireless internet server providing an interface to the personal information manager over a plurality of platforms supported by the wireless internet server; the plurality of platforms comprising a voice platform, a web platform, and a short messaging service platform, wherein the personal information manager is accessible from each of the plurality of platforms and sends an alert to the user via the wireless server of the occurrence of a calendar event and the wireless server delivers the alert using a designated platform set by the user, the wireless internet server being configurable by the user to provide personalized content to each of the platforms independently of one another according to the user's defined preferences for each platform including specifying what types of updates are received for each platform and how often the updates are received.