Horology: time measuring systems or devices – With calendar indicator
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-30
2001-06-05
Roskoski, Bernard (Department: 2772)
Horology: time measuring systems or devices
With calendar indicator
Reexamination Certificate
active
06243325
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a calendar management system and a calendar display control method, for providing a display of a calendar in compliance with a calendar form for one month, as well as a computer readable record medium on which is recorded a calendar management program, and more particularly to a calendar management system and a calendar display control method, allowing a start day at the head of a calendar to be arbitrarily set, as well as a computer readable record medium having a calendar management program recorded thereon.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recent information equipment such as personal computers, electronic datebooks, etc., typically employ calendar management systems. In order to manage schedules of individuals or groups, most of these calendar management systems allow the calendars to be viewed on a month-to-month basis, a week-to-week basis or day-to-day basis. The display form upon the display of a calendar for one month is fixed to a display form in which days-of-week are arranged with Sunday ahead, starting from 1 in each month as in the case of the ordinary calendars. However, in such a fixed calendar display form it is inconvenient for the user's schedule management, so that some of the calendar management systems are configured to allow a display of a calendar for one month with a day-of-week desired by the user ahead or a display of a calendar for one month starting from a week desired by the user (Japanese Patent Laid-open Pub. No. Hei 7-282131).
For example, in cases where a one-month business term of a company is from 21 in each month to 20 in the next month and hence it is desired to display a calendar starting from 21 for each month, however, it was hard for the conventional calendar management allow the specification of a day-of-week or a week positioned at the top of the calendar to fulfill the user's need since an extremely complicated operation was required. That is, to provide a calendar display from Oct. 21, 1997 to Nov. 20, 1997, the user must first find out that Oct. 21, 1997 corresponds to Tuesday, and then change the calendar form into another calendar form for one month with Tuesday ahead. Then from the fact that Oct. 21, 1997 is positioned in the third week in the calendar form with Tuesday ahead, another change is made into a calendar form for one month starting from the third week. In addition, for the next one month from Nov. 21, 1997 to Dec. 20, 1997, the user at the time of Nov. 21, 1997 must again make a change into a calendar form with Tuesday ahead and change into a calendar form starting from a week containing Nov. 21, 1997. For this reason, the conventional month-to-month calendar management system has suffered from a deficiency that it is difficult to appropriately fulfill the user's demand to display one-month calendar starting from an arbitrary date.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a calendar management system and a calendar display control method, capable of automatically displaying a calendar for one month with a date desired by the user ahead, as well as a computer readable record medium on which is recorded a calendar management program.
The present invention provides a calendar management system for providing a display of a calendar in conformity with a calendar display form for one month, the calendar management system comprising a start date specifying unit for specifying any date in one month as a start day of a calendar display; a layout creating unit for creating a layout of a calendar for one month with the start day specified by the start date specifying unit ahead; and a calendar display processing unit for allowing a display of a calendar in conformity with the contents of creation of the layout creating unit. According to the calendar management system of the present invention, it is sufficient for the user to specify a start day in order to automatically display a calendar for one month with the specified date ahead, allowing the display of the calendar to be easy to perform in case for example the business term of a company has a time schedule from 21 in each month to 20 in the next month.
The layout creating unit creates a calendar layout for one month including dates from the specified start day to the last day of a month containing the specified day and dates from the first day in the next month to the previous day of a corresponding day of the specified start day. When a month containing the specified day is December, the layout creating unit creates a calendar layout for one month including dates from the specified start day to the last day of a month containing the specified day and dates from the first day in January in the next year to the previous day of a corresponding day of the specified start day. The calendar management system of the present invention further comprises a start day-of-week specifying unit for specifying any day-of-week as a start day-of-week in one month, and in this case the layout creating unit further changes, for creation a layout of a calendar for one month which has been changed to have at its leading position a start day specified by the start date specifying unit, into a layout of a calendar for one month which has at its leading position a start day-of-week specified by the start day-of-week specifying unit. More specifically, the start day-of-week specifying unit specifies Sunday as a start day-of-week in one month at the time of display, and the layout creating unit further changes, for creation a layout of a calendar for one month which has been changed to have at its leading position a start day specified by the start date specifying unit, into a layout of a calendar for one month which has at its leading position Sunday specified by the start day-of-week specifying unit.
The present invention further provides a calendar display control method for controlling a calendar display in conformity with a calendar display form for one month, the method comprising a start date specification step for setting any specified date as a start day of a calendar display; a layout creation step for creating a layout of a calendar for one month with the specified date ahead; and a calendar display processing step for providing a display of a calendar in conformity with the created layout. The details of this calendar display control method is substantially the same as those of the calendar management system.
The present invention further provides a computer readable record medium on which is recorded a calendar management program for providing a display of a calendar in conformity with a calendar display form for one month, the record medium comprising a start date specifying module for specifying any date in one month as a start day of a calendar display at the time of the display; a layout creating module for creating a layout of a calendar for one month with the start day specified by the start date specifying module ahead; and a calendar display processing module for allowing a display of a calendar in conformity with the contents of creation of the layout creating module. The details of this computer readable record medium on which is recorded a calendar management program are also substantially the same as those of the calendar management system.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1968444 (1934-07-01), Farber
patent: 5199009 (1993-03-01), Svast
patent: 7-282131 (1995-10-01), None
Fujitsu Limited
Roskoski Bernard
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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