Event Resolution System for Calendar Conflict Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic calendars often fail to detect and resolve conflicts between scheduled events, such as vacations and business meetings, leading to unintended scheduling issues.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that automatically determine conflicts between scheduled, pre-scheduled, and post-scheduled events, allowing for the cancellation, rescheduling, or tentative acceptance of meetings, and notifying participants accordingly, using a computer infrastructure to manage and update calendars.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic event resolution is implemented, then scheduling efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the calendar management functionality into distinct modules: conflict detection module, event classification module (pre-scheduled vs. post-scheduled), resolution action module, and notification module. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific aspects of the scheduling problem independently, improving overall system efficiency while managing complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary classification of events into pre-scheduled and post-scheduled categories before conflict resolution. By预先 categorizing events and their confirmability status, the system can apply appropriate resolution strategies in advance, reducing the computational burden during actual conflict resolution and improving scheduling efficiency.
2Loss of time
If conflict detection and resolution is automated, then time management is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates critical event attributes (confirmability status, event type, time parameters) from the complete event data structure. By extracting only the necessary information for conflict detection and resolution, the system reduces information processing requirements while maintaining effective time management capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies partial action by focusing conflict resolution only on confirmed pre-scheduled events and high-priority post-scheduled events, rather than processing all calendar events uniformly. This selective approach reduces information processing requirements while still achieving significant time management improvements for critical scheduling conflicts.
3Reliability
If comprehensive event classification is implemented, then resolution accuracy is improved, but computational load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different classification criteria and resolution strategies to different types of events based on their local characteristics. Pre-scheduled confirmed events receive one type of resolution treatment, while post-scheduled events receive another. This localized quality approach improves resolution accuracy for each event type while reducing overall computational load by avoiding uniform complex processing of all events.
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AI summary
A system and method for event resolution. The method includes determining whether a post-scheduled event or a pre-scheduled event conflicts with a scheduled event. The method further includes extracting details of the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event and automatically populating a response with at least some of the extracted details. The method further includes sending the response with an accept indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event does not conflict with the scheduled event, or sending the response with a cancel indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event conflicts with the scheduled event, or sending the response with a tentatively accept indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event conflicts with the scheduled event.