Recent ban on Motorola products based on android which has features like scheduling events from a mobile device has been reported here. here . This time its Microsoft and the patent in argument is this titled "Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device". The article mentions the claims numbered 1,2,5/6 are being infringed.
Lets get the brief on the patent from its abstract
The present invention includes a mobile device which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. The mobile device creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
From a layman perspective, if in the android device a software creates a meeting schedule (for e.g. an ICS file) or an equivalent XML file which includes an index which has global identifier (similar to an record index in a database of such objects in the server e.g in Google Calendar server, which can be recognized by other devices. Also the said XML object ( or equivalent) also has a property which indicates whether the object has already been sent to a destination user(s). The end-result is something essential for mobile based event sharing and scheduling,what is required is to have an implementation different than this proposed in claims. Lets do some quick search on http://patents.google.com and find a solution for Motorola
