Channel Calendar for Group Communication Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic calendar services face challenges in sharing calendars across different platforms, fail to distinguish privacy settings of events, and do not provide easy access to relevant information, leading to redundancy, inefficiency, and resource waste.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a channel calendar in a group-based communication system, allowing sharing of calendar objects across external resources, rendering events based on visibility parameters, and providing user interfaces for easy access to calendar summaries and event reminders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If calendar services share calendars across different platforms, then calendar accessibility is improved, but system complexity and resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a channel calendar as an intermediary layer between external calendar resources and the group communication system. This channel calendar receives calendar objects from external sources and presents them through a unified interface, mediating the complexity of cross-platform integration while maintaining simplicity for end users. The channel calendar acts as a buffer that handles the adaptability requirements without propagating system complexity to the user side.
2Adaptability or versatility
If calendar services share calendars across different platforms, then calendar accessibility is improved, but network resource usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-fetching and caching calendar objects and their metadata when they are first requested. Subsequent accesses to the same calendar objects utilize the cached versions, reducing the need for repeated network requests. This preliminary action stores calendar data locally in the channel calendar, thereby improving accessibility while minimizing ongoing network resource consumption.
3Loss of information
If calendar services provide detailed calendar information, then information completeness is improved, but ease of access to relevant information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments calendar information into distinct components: calendar objects, metadata sets, and rendered presentations. This segmentation allows the system to maintain complete information in the background while selectively presenting only relevant portions to users based on their needs and context. The metadata sets contain detailed information, while the rendered calendar provides an accessible summary, resolving the contradiction between completeness and ease of access.
4Manufacturing precision
If calendar services render calendar objects based on metadata sets, then information presentation accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system utilizes parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the rendering of calendar objects based on metadata parameters. The metadata sets contain parameters that control how calendar objects are presented (such as visibility, priority, and formatting). By changing rendering parameters rather than altering the fundamental rendering mechanism, the system achieves accurate information presentation while keeping processing complexity manageable through parameter-driven flexibility.
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AI summary
Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a channel calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein. The apparatus is configured to at least generate a channel calendar identifier associated with a group-based communication channel in the group-based communication system, receive a calendar sharing request associated with the channel calendar identifier from a client device, retrieve the calendar object and calendar object metadata set based on the channel calendar identifier, and cause rendering of the calendar object for display via a user interface of the client device.