Patent Document ID: 8185425
Application ID: 11550363

Base Claim:
1. A method of automatically locating one or more dates in a computer implemented calendar application, comprising: receiving at a computing device a date request that includes contextual date information representative of a specific date or a specific range of dates wherein the contextual date information does not have a predefined format, and wherein said contextual date information includes input by a user that is related to and describes, but does not specify, a particular date or range of dates that allows said computer implemented calendar application to locate said particular date or range of dates; automatically locating by the computing device the specific date or the specific range of dates based on the contextual date information of the date request; and automatically initiating by the computing device the displaying of the specific date or the specific range of dates.

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Claim 9:
9. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the displaying is initiated by one or more web service (s) that have performed the operation of automatically locating the specific date or range of dates and wherein the web service (s) initiate the displaying by sending the located specific date and range of dates to a client application that responds to the located specific date or date range by displaying such specific date or range of dates.