Electronic Calendar Recurring Event End Date Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Recurring events with an end date in electronic calendar systems often lapse without notice to the organizer, leading to issues like room restrictions and inconvenience in reinstating the event, as existing systems do not provide timely notifications or options to modify the end date efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for an electronic calendar program that notifies the organizer of a recurring event's end date and allows modification of the event details, such as time, duration, or location, through a user interface on a mobile device, enabling the organizer to reinstate or modify the event as needed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If recurring events are set with a predetermined end date in electronic calendar systems, then the events can automatically stop after the end date, but the events lapse without any notice to the organizer, causing inability to continue the event due to room restrictions or attendee conflicts
Solution Approach 1:
The system sends a notification to the organizer before the recurring event reaches its end date. This preliminary action allows the organizer to be informed in advance and take appropriate actions to continue or modify the event, preventing the harmful lapse without notice while maintaining the automatic stop function.
2Ease of operation
If recurring events automatically lapse after the end date, then the system maintains simple event management, but the organizer must manually reinstate the event, causing inconvenience and potential conflicts
Solution Approach 1:
By notifying the organizer before the event ends, the system enables preliminary action to continue the event. The organizer can extend the end date or modify event parameters in advance, avoiding the need for manual reinstatement and reducing the time lost due to event interruptions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the event end date is fixed, then the recurring event structure is simple to manage, but the organizer cannot adapt to room restrictions or attendee conflicts that arise before the end date
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system enables the organizer to make adaptive changes before the event ends. By receiving advance notice, the organizer can modify event parameters such as time, location, or duration to accommodate room restrictions or attendee conflicts, maintaining adaptability without significantly increasing system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for preventing the lapse of a recurring event includes an electronic calendar program having the capability of establishing a recurring event with a predetermined end date. A processor is operative for notifying an organizer of the event at a predetermined time of the end date for the recurring event and permitting the organizer to modify the end date of the recurring event if the event is to continue. The electronic calendar program and processor is operative in a mobile wireless communications device that includes a housing and radio frequency (RF) transceiver contained within the housing such that notifications of the new end date can be transmitted to and received by attendees of the event, including any changed meeting information.