Electronic calendar with group scheduling and automated scheduling techniques for coordinating conflicting schedules

Patent 6101480 Issued on August 8, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 19, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

International Business Machines

Application

No. 100134 filed on 06/19/1998

US Classes:

705/9, Staff scheduling or task assignment705/8Allocating resources or scheduling for an administrative function

Examiners

Primary: Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Assistant: Morgan, George D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Hunton & Williams

International Class

G06F 017/60

Abstract

A system for scheduling time intervals for a plurality of users on a network comprises a database system that stores a profile for each potential invitee of the system at one or more servers. The invitee profiles comprises user profiles wherein each user profile has information regarding available and unavailable times for that user. The system further comprises request generators located remotely from the servers and connected over a network that generate a request for allocation of a time interval for one or more of the plurality of invitees. A busy time determination device gathers the profiles for the one or more requested invitees that are available in the databases and determining whether those invitees are available during the time interval requested by the request generating means. If not all invitees are available, a best fit determining system determines a next best time interval.