Single button operations for a device
View Patent ↗Techniques are provided for configuring a device. One or more operations are determined in accordance with a scheduled meeting. One or more configurable buttons on the device are provided. Each of the one or more configurable buttons corresponds to one of the operations. Selecting a first of the one or more configurable buttons causes processing to be performed for a first of the operations associated with the first configurable button. The first operation uses information associated with said scheduled meeting.
1. A method of configuring a device comprising:
determining one or more operations in accordance with a scheduled meeting; and
providing one or more configurable buttons on the device, each of said one or more configurable buttons corresponding to one of said operations, wherein selecting a first of said one or more configurable buttons causes processing to be performed for a first of said operations associated with said first configurable button, said first operation initiating a communication using information associated with said scheduled meeting, and wherein said one or more configurable buttons is configured in response to a received notification.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more configurable buttons which are active at a point in time change in response to a received notification.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein selection of said first configurable button causes processing to be performed to connect the device to the scheduled meeting.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more configurable buttons which are active at a point in time change in response to a selected appointment entry.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting said first configurable button causes conference call in information to be obtained.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein selecting said first configurable button causes an audio conference phone number to be automatically dialed.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein said conference call in information includes an audio conference number and an access code.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said device is a phone.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said device is a computer.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein said device is a mobile communications device.
11. The method of claim 5 , wherein said conference call in information is obtained from a calendar and scheduling server application and wherein said device includes a calendar and scheduling client application used to schedule the scheduled meeting.
12. A method of configuring a device comprising:
determining one or more operations in accordance with a scheduled meeting; and
providing one or more configurable buttons on the device, each of said one or more configurable buttons corresponding to one of said operations, wherein selecting a first of said one or more configurable buttons causes processing to be performed to send a notification to attendees of the scheduled meeting that an attendee associated with said device is late for said scheduled meeting.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein said device communicates with a calendar and scheduling server application to send said notification.
14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
updating a calendar of scheduled appointments for each of said attendees in accordance with said notification.
15. The method of claim 12 , wherein upon selecting a second of said one or more configurable buttons causes processing to be performed to send a notification to one or more attendees of the scheduled meeting that an attendee associated with said device is canceling the scheduled meeting.
16. The method of claim 12 , wherein said device is a phone.
17. The method of claim 12 , wherein said device is a mobile communications device.
18. A computer readable storage medium comprising executable code for configuring a device comprising code that:
determines one or more operations in accordance with a scheduled meeting; and
provides one or more configurable buttons on the device, each of said one or more configurable buttons corresponding to one of said operations, wherein selecting a first of said one or more configurable buttons causes processing to be performed to arrange a second meeting with attendees of said scheduled meeting.
19. The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the second meeting is to occur at a current time when performing said selecting.
20. The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the second meeting is arranged between the attendees by a component of said device communicating with another device for each of the attendees.