Calendar Timeline Search Highlighting Event Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Legacy calendar views in scheduling applications either provide limited information or excessive information, making it challenging to achieve a long-term synopsis of associated actions, and adding items proves difficult for users.
Innovation Solution
A calendar application that detects a search term and highlights matching events on a timeline, allowing users to interact with the calendar and timeline to search and locate events, with features like a search tool, date picker, and event peek for enhanced usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If legacy calendar views display detailed information for daily and weekly actions, then ease of operation for detailed configurations is improved, but loss of information for long term synopsis increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the calendar interface into multiple views (day view, week view, month view, and timeline view), each optimized for different levels of detail and time spans. This segmentation allows users to access detailed configurations when needed while maintaining a simplified long-term overview, resolving the contradiction between detailed operation ease and information retention for synopsis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a timeline dimension alongside the traditional calendar grid, providing an additional visual representation that enhances long-term synopsis capability. This dimensional addition allows users to perceive event patterns and associations across extended periods without sacrificing the ability to view detailed daily/weekly configurations when needed.
2Manufacturing precision
If legacy calendar views provide excessive information for detailed configurations, then manufacturing precision of information display is improved, but ease of operation for long term synapsis deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic view switching that adapts to user needs and context. Users can transition between detailed views (day/week) and overview views (month/timeline) based on their current task requirements. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction by providing manufacturing precision for detailed configurations when needed while maintaining ease of operation for long-term synopsis through simplified overview displays.
3Measurement precision
If legacy calendar views use detailed configurations for daily and weekly actions, then measurement precision of event details is improved, but productivity for adding and managing events deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements event templates and recurring event functionality that allow users to pre-configure common event patterns. Once an event structure is defined, it can be automatically reused and modified, eliminating the need to manually configure detailed parameters for each new event. This preliminary action maintains measurement precision for event details while dramatically improving productivity for adding and managing events.
Data Source
AI summary
Searching and locating an event on a calendar with a timeline is provided. An application such as a calendar application detects a search on the calendar or the timeline. One or more events are located on the calendar or on the timeline that match a search term of the search. The search term on the one or more events is highlighted. The one or more events with the search term that is highlighted are displayed on the calendar or the timeline.