Tired of trying to arrange your schedule around the days your favorite store is having a big sale, or when the weekly circular starts? Can’t seem to find time to get to the store before your coupons expire?

Instead of missing out on big coupons and sales, what if coupons and sales could put themselves on your calendar, and tell you exactly when you have the time to fit them into your busy schedule?

That’s the aim of the latest coupon-related patent application. IBM’s proposal, entitled “Optimization of Redeemable Offers Based on User Available Calendar Dates“, would do just what the title suggests – organize coupons and offers for you, based on your calendar and when you’re available to shop.

“Where once store circulars, newspapers, and TV advertisements were the norm for redeemable offer communications, users are now bombarded with a plethora of digital advertising campaigns that fill their e-mail inboxes, overload their senses, or otherwise overwhelm the user’s ability to sort through all of the promotions that are actually relevant to them,” the patent documentation reads. “Identifying the best deals that match with a user’s available calendar days to shop for the product or products in questions may be near impossible for a user.”  Read more from Coupons in the News here.