IP Library Granted Patent US 9,330,380
Granted Patent B2
US 9,330,380 · App. 13/339,970 · Granted May 3, 2016

Method and system for managing one or more recurrencies including exclusionary schedule

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Patent No.
US 9,330,380
App. No.
13/339,970
Granted
May 3, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for managing one or more recurrencies. The method includes defining one or more recurrency tasks, each task having associated recurrency parameters. The method further includes identifying a recurrency period wherein the one or more recurrency tasks are disaggregated into individual scheduled events over the span of the recurrency period. Thereafter, a user-defined exclusionary schedule is applied to the disaggregated set of events. Subsequently, the edited recurrent tasks are output in a pre-defined file format.

Claims (12)

1. A computer-implemented method for managing one or more recurrencies of tasks, the method comprising:

defining by a user one or more recurrency tasks, each recurrency task having associated recurrency parameters;

identifying by a system recurrency application a recurrency period based on the recurrency parameters associated with the one or more recurrency tasks;

disaggregating by the system recurrency application the one or more recurrency tasks into individual scheduled events over a span of the recurrency period by applying the recurrency parameters associated with the one or more recurrency tasks to the recurrency period;

determining if an exclusionary schedule is to be applied, and if so, applying by the system recurrency application an exclusionary schedule to the individual scheduled events, wherein the exclusionary schedule is defined by the user and comprises one or more days that are to be excluded from the recurrency period to modify conflicting events; and

outputting by the system recurrency application the edited recurrent tasks in a pre-defined file format.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the system recurrency application identifying different exclusionary schedules for the recurrency tasks.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising initiating a formatting configuration validation process based on the recurrency parameters, wherein the formatting configuration validation process validates the configuration and format of the recurrency parameters provided by the user to the system recurrency application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising providing a pre-defined text file having recurrency-related information including the recurrency parameters.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the pre-defined text file comprises one or more records having recurrency-related information including the recurrency parameters.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein each record of the one or more records has pre-defined data elements.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising modifying the pre-defined text file based on one or more errors, wherein modifying the pre-defined text file based on one or more errors comprises correcting one or more portions of the recurrency-related information in the pre-defined text file that generated the one or more errors.

Assignments (10)
AMENDED AND RESTATED PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 27, 2025
From: UNISYS CORPORATION; UNISYS HOLDING CORPORATION; UNISYS NPL, INC.; UNISYS AP INVESTMENT COMPANY I
To: COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL TRUSTEE
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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2020
From: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: UNISYS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 054231/0496 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2017
From: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: UNISYS CORPORATION
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2017
From: UNISYS CORPORATION
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 27, 2017
From: UNISYS CORPORATION
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL TRUSTEE
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2016
From: UNISYS CORPORATION
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS AGENT
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2015
From: BALLESTROS, BRICE RICHARD
To: UNISYS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 036985/0758 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2013
From: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS COLLATERAL TRUSTEE
To: UNISYS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030082/0545 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2013
From: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
To: UNISYS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030004/0619 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Feb 29, 2012
From: UNISYS CORPORATION
To: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST
Reel/Frame 027784/0046 →