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20080294728 | Service Discovery for Electronic Messaging Clients - An autodiscovery service for clients in an electronic messaging system is disclosed. Client devices in the system request messaging system configuration settings from an autodiscover server. Clients may derive the address of the autodiscover server from user input, such as an email address, or the address may be obtained by other means. The autodiscover server responds to the request with settings for that client. The settings requested may include addresses of electronic mail servers and other servers that provide client services. The autodiscover server may determine the settings for the client based on various criteria, including client location and user mailbox location. Third party servers may participate in the autodiscovery service, and addresses of third party servers may be included in the settings provided to the client devices. | 11-27-2008 |
20090319780 | ESTABLISHING SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING UNSECURED E-MAIL - In one embodiment, a host entity may create a trusted connection with a guest entity. The host entity may encrypt a trusted connection invitation for an external guest entity using a proof of possession of a trusted token for the external guest entity. The host entity may transmit the encrypted trusted connection invitation to the external guest entity. A guest entity may decrypt the trusted token, and then use the proof of possession to decrypt the trusted connection invitation. | 12-24-2009 |
20130218622 | AGGREGATING AVAILABILITY STATUS INFORMATION ON SHARED CALENDARS - A scheduling grid is provided for displaying summary availability information for a group of users in a collaborative environment. The system may enable users to share calendars with other users within the collaborative environment so that a meeting organizer can schedule a meeting at a time when all or most of the users are available. The system may collect availability information from the users' individual calendars and may aggregate the availability information in a master calendar, which may display the aggregated availability information for the group of users in a scheduling grid. Scheduling grid timeslots may display the aggregate availability information for the group of users and may graphically indicate when all users are available and when one or more users are unavailable during a timeslot. The aggregate availability information may enable the meeting organizer to quickly determine an available time for scheduling a meeting. | 08-22-2013 |
20140149896 | FOR-YOUR-INFORMATION EVENTS - A for-your-information event can be received in a computer system. The for-your-information event can include an event time field that indicates a scheduled time for the for-your-information event. The computer system may not automatically block the scheduled time of the for-your-information event on a calendar in response to receiving the for-your-information event. User input indicating that the for-your-information event is to be converted to a regular event can be received. In response to the user input, the computer system can convert the for-your-information event to a regular event. Converting the for-your information event can include automatically including the scheduled time of the for-your-information event as a scheduled time for the converted regular event. Also in response to the user input, the computer system can automatically block the scheduled time of the for-your-information event on the calendar. | 05-29-2014 |
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20110161453 | CALENDAR REPAIR ASSISTANT - Calendar repair may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event, and an event property of the second event may be updated to match a corresponding event property of the first event. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161454 | REPAIRING CALENDARS WITH STANDARD MEETING MESSAGES - Calendar repair using a standard message may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event to determine whether properties between the events are out-of-sync. If so, a standard meeting request message comprising the correct value may be sent to update the out-of-sync property. | 06-30-2011 |
20130159042 | Calendar Repair Assistant - Calendar repair may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event, and an event property of the second event may be updated to match a corresponding event property of the first event. | 06-20-2013 |
20140278666 | ENHANCED CALENDAR VIEWS WITH EVENT PEEKS - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for facilitating enhanced calendar views. In at least one implementation, a method comprises presenting a perspective on a calendar comprising a plurality of calendar units and a plurality of events scheduled in association with the plurality of calendar units. The method further comprises, in response to a primary indication of interest associated with a specific event of the plurality of events, presenting a primary perspective on the specific event comprising event details for the specific event and a plurality of event controls. The method further comprises, in response to a secondary indication of interest associated the specific event of the plurality of events, presenting a secondary perspective on the specific event comprising at least a portion of the event details and a subset of the plurality of event controls. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278677 | ENHANCED SCHEDULING BASED ON THE AVAILABILTY OF SUB-ENVIRONMENTS IN AN EVENT ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced scheduling. In at least one implementation, a user may consider the availability of any room in a building when scheduling an event. Event entities including an event participant and an event environment having various sub-environments in which to host an event are identified. A participant availability for the event participant is identified based on a participant schedule associated with the event participant and an environment availability for the event environment is identified based on an environment schedule associated with each of the sub-environments. The participant availability for the event participant and the environment availability for the event environment are then presented for consideration by the user. | 09-18-2014 |