R We Still On Time? An Active Approach for Aggregating 2-Way Re-confirmations in Electronic Calendaring Systems

摘要

People waiting without knowing how long—it's a universal problem, it's everywhere. Time is finite and therefore precious; you cannot recapture lost time waiting. Coordinating precise meeting times among groups of people, can be a difficult task; a chore that seemingly never goes according to the exact plan. There is almost certainly a margin of error—plus or minus minutes, while in the scope of a short-lived human life, every priceless minute counts.;R We Still On Time? Herein described is a method for providing real-time status updates to expectant people so they can make better use of unproductive time normally spent waiting. Currently, when using electronic calendaring, attendees have no control over how long they are going to wait for other attendees to arrive to the scheduled event, either in person or via electronic communication. It's merely a guessing game as to when a calendar event will actually begin versus when it was scheduled to begin. In this manner, much time is exhausted on a wasteful activity; waiting. Thus, waiting can be defined as the idle action of staying where one is or delaying further action until a particular time or until something else happens.;The present invention relates to time synchronization and in particular to a method and systematic approach to confirming and reconfirming specific meeting times between two or more meeting attendees in immediate, real time. In a situational context, an attendee could be a customer, client, patient, family member, friend, boyfriend/girlfriend, ect. The described approach allows meeting attendees to re-confirm and specify whether the agreed calendar event time is correct and withstanding. Reconfirmation can be accomplished using a data linked vehicle head unit that supports electronics communication devices or other electronic communication device such as a desktop or laptop computer, tablet, mobile device or smart-watch or smart accessory that may be worn, imbedded into or controlled by a human operator.