Team-Based Task Invitations

• US 20090300113A1
• Filed: 06/02/2008
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines SA (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Eaton, Stephen D., Herescu, Oltea M., Conmy, Douglas W., Omer, Adeel
• Granted Patent: US 7,836,140 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method for managing invitations to one or more events includes identifying an attribute required to perform an event. An invitation may be created so that invitees are selected according to the identified attribute required to perform the event. At least one person associated with a attribute may then be invited to attend the event. An invitation is sent to one or more persons associated with the attribute.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of managing one or more invitations to one or more events, the method comprising:

identifying one or more attributes required to participate in at least one of the one or more events;

associating the one or more attributes with one or more group identifiers;

creating an invitation to participate in at least one of the one or more events;

selecting, by the invitation, one or more persons associated with the one or more group identifiers; and

inviting one or more selected persons associated with the one or more group identifiers wherein the invitation is addressed to the one or more group identifiers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising using a predefined invitation strategy for selecting at least one of the one or more persons associated with the group identifier.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the predefined invitation strategy further comprises ranking the one or more persons by one or more criteria.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more criteria further comprises an event manager'"'"'s preference.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising withdrawing invitations from the one or more persons no longer possessing the one or more attributes, wherein the one or more attributes is a skill set.

6. A method of managing group based invitations to an event, the method comprising:

identifying a skill set required to perform the event, wherein the skill set includes one or more skills of one or more persons required to perform the event;

creating an invitation to the event, wherein the invitation specifies the skill set required to perform the event;

identifying one or more persons possessing the skill set; and

using the invitation to invite the one or more persons possessing the skill set

wherein the invitation is addressed to the one or more group identifiers.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising withdrawing invitations from the one or more persons no longer possessing the skill set.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising addressing the invitation to a specific number of persons having the skill set.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising inviting one or more new persons in response to the one or more new persons obtaining the skill set.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising withdrawing the invitation from the one or more persons possessing the skill set when the one or more persons with a greater skill set become available to perform the event

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising sending a new invitation when the skill set changes.

12. The method of claim 6, further comprising sending a message regarding a detail of the event to a plurality of accepted invitees.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising automatically sending the message to a newly accepted invitee.

14. A computer program product for inviting one or more persons to perform an event, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable code comprising;

computer usable code configured to designate one or more group identifiers, wherein each of the group identifiers represents one or more attributes required to perform at the event;

computer usable code configured to create an invitation to the event based upon one or more group identifiers required to perform the event;

computer usable code configured to associate one or more persons possessing the one or more attributes required to perform the event with the one or more group identifiers; and

computer usable program code configured to send the invitation to one or more persons associated with the group identifier wherein the

invitation is addressed to the one or more group identifiers.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes further comprises a skill set required to perform the event.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer usable code configured to automatically withdraw the invitation when the selected person no longer has the skill set.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising computer usable code configured to automatically invite a replacement person for the withdrawn person according to an invitation strategy.

18. An apparatus for inviting multiple persons to an event, comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the instructions for;

identifying a skill set required to perform the event, wherein the skill set includes one or more skills of one or more persons required to perform the event;

creating an invitation strategy for selecting persons having the skill set;

creating an invitation to the event, wherein the invitation specifies the skill set required to perform the event and wherein the invitation is addressed to the skill set;

identifying one or more persons possessing the skill set; and

using the invitation to invite the one or more persons possessing the skill set.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising instructions for automatically adjusting the invitation based on the invitation strategy according to the invited persons availability.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising instructions for further comprising withdrawing the invitation from the one or more persons having the skill set when the one or more persons with a greater skill set become available to perform the event.