MODELING RECURRING EVENTS IN A DATA STORE

摘要

Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a recurrent time property. The description of a “meeting,” for example, may be stored once. Each occurrence of that object over time may be stored in a “timeslot” (object occurs at time ‘t’ on day ‘d’). If it is a recurring property, recurrence information may be stored independently. “Exception” information may be stored independently as well.

主权项

1. A thin client computing system for generating object-independent recurring events in a data store, the system comprising:
a processor, a computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions, when executed by the processor, case the computing system to:
defining information indicating a first object associated with a time-related itemsending to a server the information defining the first object associated with the time-related item, the server to store the first object in a data store;defining information indicating a first timeslot object that indicates a start time and an end time associated with the time-related item;sending to the server the information defining the first timeslot object associated with the time-related item, the server to store the first timeslot object in the data store independent of the first object;defining information indicating a recurrence object that indicates that the time-related item is associated with a recurring event; andsending to the server the information defining the recurrence object associated with the recurring event, the server to store the recurrence object in the data store independent of the first object and the first timeslot object.