Method and Apparatus for Providing an Electronic Calendar with an Indication of Timeslot Availability Dependent on the Importance of a Requester
First Claim
1. A method of scheduling a meeting in an electronic calendar, comprising:
- scheduling, by a participant IHS, a first event during a particular timeslot in the electronic calendar, thus providing an already scheduled timeslot;
associating, by the participant IHS, a timeslot importance level with the already scheduled timeslot;
receiving, by the participant IHS, a request from a requester IHS to schedule a second event during the already scheduled timeslot, the request including a requester importance level of the requester in an organizational hierarchy; and
transmitting, by the participant IHS, a response to the requester IHS, the response being a timeslot available response if the requester importance level is higher than the timeslot importance level of the already scheduled timeslot, the response otherwise being a timeslot unavailable response.
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Abstract
An electronic calendar scheduling system is disclosed in which a participant schedules an event in a particular timeslot. In one embodiment, the participant may associate a timeslot importance level with the particular timeslot. When a requester later sends the participant a request to schedule another event during the already scheduled particular timeslot, the system informs the requester that the particular timeslot is either available or unavailable depending on the importance of the requester in a predetermined organization hierarchy. In one embodiment, if the requester importance level is greater than the timeslot importance level, then the system informs the requester that the already scheduled timeslot is available. Otherwise, the system informs the requester that the already scheduled timeslot is unavailable.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of scheduling a meeting in an electronic calendar, comprising:
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scheduling, by a participant IHS, a first event during a particular timeslot in the electronic calendar, thus providing an already scheduled timeslot; associating, by the participant IHS, a timeslot importance level with the already scheduled timeslot; receiving, by the participant IHS, a request from a requester IHS to schedule a second event during the already scheduled timeslot, the request including a requester importance level of the requester in an organizational hierarchy; and transmitting, by the participant IHS, a response to the requester IHS, the response being a timeslot available response if the requester importance level is higher than the timeslot importance level of the already scheduled timeslot, the response otherwise being a timeslot unavailable response. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of scheduling a meeting in an electronic calendar, comprising:
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scheduling, by a participant IHS, a first event during a particular timeslot in the electronic calendar, thus providing an already scheduled timeslot; receiving, by the participant IHS, a request from a requester IHS to schedule a second event during the already scheduled timeslot; and transmitting, by the participant IHS, a response to the requester IHS, the response being a timeslot available response if a requester associated with the requester IHS exhibits a position in an organizational hierarchical higher than a position of a participant associated with the participant IHS, the response otherwise being a timeslot unavailable response. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer program product stored on a computer operable medium for scheduling a meeting in an electronic calendar, the computer program product comprising a calendar client application that includes:
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instructions for scheduling by a participant IHS a first event during a particular timeslot in the electronic calendar, thus providing an already scheduled timeslot; instructions for associating by the participant IHS a timeslot importance level with the already scheduled timeslot; instructions for receiving by the participant IHS a request from a requester IHS to schedule a second event during the already scheduled timeslot, the request including a requester importance level of the requester in an organizational hierarchy; and instructions for transmitting by the participant IHS a response to the requester IHS, the response being a timeslot available response if the requester importance level is higher than the timeslot importance level of the already scheduled timeslot, the response otherwise being a timeslot unavailable response. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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