Temporal/Spatial Calendar Events and Triggers
Venue
Defensive Publications Series, Technical Disclosure Commons (2015)
Publication Year
2015
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Abstract
Spatial and/or temporal triggers may be established so that when actuated, one or
more notifications such as reminders may be provided to one or more users. These
triggers may be established manually, e.g., by a user operating a user interface,
automatically, e.g., by scraping calendar and/or email data to ascertain and/or
predict various aspects of upcoming appointments such as start times, duration,
date, location, and so forth, or a combination of the two. Spatial triggers may be
actuated based on a determination that a user is, or will be, at a particular
location. Temporal triggers may be actuated at particular points in time, e.g., at
the scheduled time of an event or at some predetermined time interval before or
after the event. Using one or more triggers, it is possible to provide
notifications to a user at some predetermined time interval prior to a scheduled
event, so that the user has sufficient time to make appropriate arrangements, such
as buying tickets, making a reservation, scheduling a rendezvous with a friend, and
so forth. A calendar system may also be interfaced with to manually or
automatically establish triggers.
