CONFERENCE SERVER SIMPLIFYING MANAGEMENT OF SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS FOR PARTICIPANTS OF A MEETING IN PROGRESS
First Claim
1. A method of faciliating participants of meetings to manage subsequent meetings, said method being performed in a conference server, said method comprising:
- identifying, in said conference server, a participant of a meeting in progress; and
upon said identifying, requesting from said participant a scheduling option for a subsequent meeting.
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Abstract
A conference server, provided according to an aspect of the present invention, identifies a participant of a meeting in progress and requests scheduling option for a subsequent meeting from the identified participant. On receiving a scheduling option from the participant, the conference server determines the possible participants (“recipients”) of the subsequent meeting and informs the recipients of the received scheduling option. In one embodiment, the conference server requests the scheduling option when a conflict between the meeting in progress and the subsequent meeting is found and sends notifications to the recipients (determines by examining the calendars of users). In another embodiment, the conference server requests the scheduling option for a follow-up meeting for the meeting in progress, and updates the calendars of the recipients (determined as the participants of the meeting in progress and any users invited).
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20 Claims
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1. A method of faciliating participants of meetings to manage subsequent meetings, said method being performed in a conference server, said method comprising:
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identifying, in said conference server, a participant of a meeting in progress; and upon said identifying, requesting from said participant a scheduling option for a subsequent meeting. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A machine readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions for causing a conference server to faciliate participants of meetings to manage subsequent meetings, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said conference server causes said conference server to perform the actions of:
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storing data in a memory indicating a corresponding set of participants for each of a plurality of meetings in progress; examining said data in said memory to identify a participant of a meeting in progress; requesting from said participant a scheduling option for a subsequent meeting. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A computing system comprising:
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a calendar server to maintain a corresponding calendar for each of a plurality of users; and a conference server to faciliate participants of meetings to manage subsequent meetings, said conference server operable to; store data indicating which of said pluarlity of users are participating in which of a plurality of meetings; examine said data to determine that a first meeting is in progress and a first user is a participant of said first meeting, said plurality of meetings comprising said first meeting and said plurality of users comprising said first user; send to said calendar server, a request for the subsequent meetings scheduled for said first user; receive from said calendar server, a set of subsequent meetings scheduled for said first user as a response to said first request; identify that a second subsequent meeting of said set of subsequent meetings has a start time within a next duration from a current time, whereby said first meeting if continued by said next duration results in an overlap between said first meeting and said second subsequent meeting; and upon said identifying, request from said first user a scheduling option for said second subsequent meeting. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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