Electronic calendar and diary

Abstract

An electronic schedule calendar and diary for storing in an electronic memory a plurality of future calendar appointments and events for each of a plurality of daily, weekly, or other date interval periods, and enabling the selective retrieval and electronic display of said plural appointments and events for any selected time period. The electronic diary employs manually or remotely controlled entry of said future appointments and events in digital form; manually or remotely controlled correction and updating of said data; and manually controlled retrieval or readout into a visual electronic display. A time-of-day electronic clock may also be included together with an automatic alarm for providing an alarm for each selected appointment or even entered into the memory. In a systems version, a plurality of electronic diaries are employed with a central memory or monitor. Each diary is selectively placed in communication with the central memory for transfer of data therebetween.

What is claimed is: .[.1. An electronic diary, calendar, and clock comprising: 
     
        concurrently displaying the plural appointment times for that day..]. 2. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said manually 
     
     
        controlled entry means comprising a keyboard. 3. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said manually controlled entry means comprising 
     
     
        a reader for a record bearing the code of said digital data. 4. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said memory storing additional digital data identifying one of the persons or purposes of said time of day calendar appointments, and said entry means enabling the entry 
     
     
        into said memory of said additional digital data. 5. In the apparatus of claim .[.1.]. .Iadd.15.Iaddend., said entry means enabling the selective visual indication on said display of actual time-of-day. .[.6. In an electronic diary and scheduling system, a plurality of satellite electronic diaries, each having a digital memory for storage of data of future appointments and events, digital entry means for said memory, and a digital display for reading out of said memory, a central monitor having a digital memory for centralized storing and display of the future appointments and events from said plurality of satellite diaries, reversible means for selectively transferring data between said satellite diaries and central monitor, said central monitor transferring data including said future appointments and events to the satellite diaries, said central monitor including an electronic clock for cumulatively determining the time of day and date and including automatic means for generating reminder alarms of said future appointments and events..]. .[.7. An electronic diary of future events and appointments comprising: an electronic visual display for digital data,   an electronic memory for selectively storing digital data concerning plural future time-of-day events and calendar appointments and having capacity for storing a plurality of future events and appointments for each of a plurality of different days in the future,   manually controlled electrical entry means for enabling the selective entry into said memory, at will, of said plural future time-of-day events and calendar appointments for each day, and enabling the selective correction and updating of said stored digital data, at will,   and manually controlled electrical retrieval means for coupling said memory to said visual display to concurrently visually indicate the entire schedule of plural appointment times-of-day for any one of the selected   
     
     
        present and future days..]. 8. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., said manually controlled entry means and manually controlled retrieval means including a keyboard having plural keyboard 
     
     
        switches having designations of time-of-day and day. 9. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., a plurality of said electronic diaries, a central memory, a central retrieval means and a central display; transmission means for coupling said plurality of diaries to the central diary for storing the plurality of future events and calendar appointments for said plurality of diaries in said central memory, said central retrieval means and central display enabling the calendar schedule for any of said plural diaries to be selectively retrieved and displayed 
     
     
        for any selected different day. 10. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., a plurality of said electronic diaries, a central monitor for said plurality of diaries, and means for coupling said diaries to said central monitor for storing the calendar schedule of said diaries 
     
     
        in said monitor. 11. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., a plurality of said electronic diaries, and a central monitor having a memory for communication with said diaries, thereby to provide a central 
     
     
        storage of the future appointments from said plurality of diaries. 12. In the apparatus of claim 11, means for reversibly communicating appointment 
     
     
        and event data between said diaries and said central monitor. 13. In the apparatus of claim .[.7.]. .Iadd.14.Iaddend., means enabling the entry into said memory of a tag code associated with any one of said future 
     
     
        events and calendar appointments. .Iadd.14.  A small personalized, self-contained electronic diary for enabling a user to selectively enter, store, revise, and concurrently display a schedule of different appointments and events for each day or other extended period, and to enter, store, revise, and display such schedules for any one of a series of different days or extended time periods, said diary having all components contained within a small, easily movable housing, comprising:   a multiline electronic visual display for displaying a schedule of different appointments on different lines of the display,   an electronic memory for selectively storing digital data concerning plural present and future time-of-day events and calendar appointments for present or future time periods and having capacity for storing a plurality of such future events and appointments for each of a series of time periods in the future,   manual controlled electrical entry means for enabling the selective entry into the memory, at will, of said plural present and future time-of-day events and appointments for each of said days or time periods, and enabling the selective correction and updating of said stored digital data, at will,   and manually controlled electrical retrieval means for coupling said memory to said visual display to concurrently visually indicate each of the entire schedules for any one of the selected present or future time periods on the multiple lines of the display. .Iaddend. .Iadd.15. A small, personalized, self-contained electronic diary for enabling a user to selectively enter, store, revise, and concurrently display on a multiple line electronic display, a schedule of different appointments and events for each day or other extended time period, and to enter, store, revise, and selectively display such schedules for a series of different days or extended time periods in the future,   said diary having all components contained within a small, easily movable housing, comprising:   an electronic clock for cumulatively determining the actual date and time-of-day as a number of functions including minutes, hours, days, and month,   an electronic memory means for storing a plurality of time-of-day appointments for each of a plurality of said days or time periods, including those of the present and the future,   manually controlled means coupled to said memory for selecting, at will, each of the present and future days or time periods, individually, and for entering and storing in said memory for that selected day or time period, digital data corresponding to a plurality of different time-of-day events and appointments,   said manually controlled means including manually controlled correction and update means for selectively changing and updating, at will, in the memory the digital data for any given appointment or event time-of-day, for any of the present and future days or time periods, thereby to enable the schedule for any of said days or time periods in said memory to be corrected and rendered current at any time,   said manually controlled means including manually controlled retrieval means for selectively accessing said electronic memory, at will, for any one of the plurality of days or time periods, and for reading out the stored schedule of plural appointments and events for that day or time period to said electronic display for concurrently displaying the plural appointments and events on the multiple lines of the electronic display. .Iaddend.