Patent Document ID: 7970793
Application ID: 12024396

Base Claim:
1. A method for utilizing web-based information for generating and updating calendar events from non-calendar sources, comprising creating a list of criteria relating to calendar events defining a keyword; providing a link-up between a user and at least one information source uniform resource locator address where events of a type of the keyword may be found; periodically checking content in a body of a web page at each of the at least one web page uniform resource locator addresses for a presence of a time stamp and applying a keyword filter to search for information in a text format on said source that is tagged with an embedded HTML tag related to the keyword and accessible when searching for the information; identifying in the web page content RSS-retrievable specific event information in response to the presence of the time stamp and the embedded tag; automatically converting the RSS-retrievable specific event information into a calendar event associated with the keyword and having a time, a date and a subject in a calendar format that is different from the RSS-retrievable specific event information text format; adding the calendar event into a user calendar; displaying the calendar event to a user of the user calendar in association with the keyword; and linking a change in the filtered information regarding a user-specified keyword to the user calendar.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the keywords and the identity of the user are maintained in confidentiality.