Shared Enterprise Calendar Integration Across External Event Streams
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing enterprise web applications face challenges in efficiently integrating and synchronizing event scheduling information across multiple platforms, leading to inefficiencies and inaccuracies in organizing and conducting events, especially when users interact with both enterprise and non-enterprise event management systems.
Innovation Solution
The technology integrates enterprise web applications with other event management systems like Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar, enabling the creation of a consolidated calendar that shares event information from multiple sources, ensuring privacy and security controls while allowing controlled access for both enterprise and non-enterprise users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If enterprise web applications maintain separate event scheduling systems, then application functionality and security control are maintained, but integration complexity increases and users must access multiple applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a calendar sharing system that acts as an intermediary between enterprise web applications and external event scheduling applications. The system allows enterprise applications to publish calendars that can be subscribed to by external applications like Outlook, enabling integration without requiring direct complex integration between each application pair. This mediator approach reduces integration complexity by providing a standardized sharing interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The calendar sharing system provides universal functionality that works across multiple application types and platforms. The same calendar publishing mechanism can serve different enterprise applications (CRM, ERP, project management) and integrate with various external applications (email clients, mobile apps, web calendars). This multi-functional approach consolidates integration efforts into a single system rather than requiring separate integration solutions for each application combination.
2Ease of operation
If event information is shared across multiple platforms, then accessibility and collaboration improve, but security controls and privacy protection become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality by allowing different levels of access control for different calendar data. Administrators can configure which events are visible to external applications and which remain private to the enterprise application. Individual events can have different sharing permissions independent of other events, enabling fine-grained security control that maintains both accessibility and protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The calendar sharing system serves as a security intermediary between enterprise applications and external applications. It provides a controlled interface that filters and authorizes which event information is exposed to external systems. The system can authenticate subscribers, control access based on user roles, and manage permissions without exposing the internal structure of enterprise applications, thereby reducing security risks while maintaining accessibility.
3Reliability
If users access multiple separate applications for event management, then application-specific functionality is maintained, but time efficiency and productivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges event scheduling functionality across multiple applications by implementing a unified calendar viewing mechanism. External applications can subscribe to and display enterprise application calendars within their own interfaces, consolidating what would otherwise require separate applications into a single view for the user. This combining approach maintains application-specific functionality while improving productivity by eliminating the need to switch between applications.
Data Source
AI summary
The described technology relates to integrating events electronically scheduled in enterprise web applications and other event applications. A capability is provided for events created by an enterprise web application and events from other external event streams to be presented in a consolidated calendar in the enterprise web application. Capabilities are also provided for sharing the calendar among enterprise users and non-enterprise users, and for efficiently generating the shared calendar.