SENDING AUTOMATIC REMINDERS TO INVITEES FOR INVITATIONS NOT ACTED ON

• US 20080082606A1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gupta, Pawan K., Patel, Samir J.
• Application Number:
  US11/537,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

A computer program product is provided for receiving invitations and automatically generating reminders for invitations that have not been one of accepted and declined. The program may be supplied as an add-in. The program provides for searching each invitation for a date, a start time, and a time duration; providing reminder generators for each invitation; removing reminder generators for the invitations that are one of accepted and declined by the recipient; displaying each invitation; receiving recipient input to one of accept and decline for each invitation; providing a conflict check between at least two invitations; providing a conflict alert notification to the recipient when at least two invitations conflict; resolving conflicts between at least two invitations; sending an accept message to a sender of an invitation accepted by the recipient; and sending a decline message to a sender of an invitation declined by the recipient.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product providing a software engine and a calendar, the instructions comprising instructions for:

receiving an invitation; and

automatically generating reminders for invitations that have not been one of accepted and declined.

2. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for populating an inbox, the populating performed by instructions for:

providing the recipient a display of the invitation;

receiving recipient input to one of accept and decline the invitation; and

resolving conflicts between at least two invitations.

3. The computer program as in claim 1, further comprising instructions to search each invitation for a date, a start time, and a time duration.

4. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing a conflict alert notification if two or more invitations conflict with each other.

5. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the recipient one of accepts and declines the invitation, and the engine sends a corresponding message to the sender.

6. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for:

creating a reminder generator for each invitation.

7. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for:

removing the reminder generator for each invitation that is one of accepted and declined.

8. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for:

providing a conflict check between at least two invitations.

9. A computer program add-in product comprising machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product for automatically generating reminders to recipients of invitations who have not one of accepted and declined an invitation, the instructions comprising instructions for:

searching each invitation for a date, a start time, and a time duration;

providing reminder generators for each invitation;

removing reminder generators for the invitations that are one of accepted and declined by the recipient;

displaying each invitation;

receiving recipient input to one of accept and decline for each invitation;

providing a conflict check between at least two invitations;

providing a conflict alert notification to the recipient when at least two invitations conflict;

resolving conflicts between at least two invitations;

sending an accept message to a sender of an invitation accepted by the recipient; and

sending a decline message to a sender of an invitation declined by the recipient.

10. A system for reminding a user of at least one invitation that has not been one of accepted and declined, the system comprising:

a processing system for storing machine readable instructions and interpreting the instructions;

and a set of machine readable instructions for operating within the processing system, the instructions comprising instructions for receiving an invitation and automatically generating at least one reminder for the invitation.