Method and apparatus to transmit a calendar event in target calendaring system format

Abstract

An agent may receive an event from a source calendaring system, wherein the event specifies a person, perhaps including a uniform resource locator, having disparate calendaring system. The disparate calendaring system may use a native event format for coordinating events. The agent may lookup a template to convert the event to a native event. The agent may transmit a message with attributes such as a unique identifier to the disparate calendaring system. If the disparate calendaring system acknowledges the event with a success, the agent may log the occurrence of a success. Agent may transmit additional messages having native events to additional disparate systems.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to the field of coordinating schedule entries in multiple electronic calendars and more specifically, to formatting a calendar request from a format of a source to a format of the target. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Among office workers, for example, technical, administrative, and sales staff, there has been a growing trend to operate at sites other than that of the employer. Visits to clients can be of varying durations and often may last months. Consequently, such workers may have access to a client's computer network and be given permissions and logins for standard office software, including calendaring tools. [0005] Typically, this means that the itinerant worker, sometimes called a contractor, has multiple bosses to whom she should report. Often the basic calendaring tools used at the client's offices vary from those used by the employer. This means that it is o...

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Problems solved by technology

This means that it is often necessary for the worker to allocate time on a client's calendaring system and then login to the employer's calendaring system and redundantly enter the same meeting details.

The problem is exacerbated if the worker has, in addition, a personal organizer or home computer on which a calendar is hosted.

Though this is a fairly universal language in the business world, it still means a lot of redundant human keystrokes to allocate the timed event in each recipient's calendar tool.

The iCalendar feature does not provide for a way to be backwards compatible with proprietary calendar software, vis-à-vis meeting invitations and synchronizing scheduled events.

This replication only supports multiple instances of the same calendar system and does not support synchronization between disparate calendar systems made by different manufacturers.

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