System and Method for Confirming Attendance for In-Person Meetings or Events

• US 20130263020A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meetup Incorporated (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Meetup Incorporated (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Heiferman, Scott, Glusman, Emilio Andres, Burns, Gary, Trush, Mathew J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,264,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A system and method for confirming attendance for in-person meetings or events is provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting, to a plurality of user terminals, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events; receiving, from at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, a conditional confirmation of attendance for at least one in-person meeting or event, the conditional confirmation based on an indicated condition; monitoring the indicated condition for the at least one in-person meeting or event; and when the condition is met, modifying the conditional confirmation of attendance to a non-conditional confirmation of attendance.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for confirming attendance for in-person meetings or events, comprising:

transmitting, to a plurality of user terminals, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events;

receiving, from at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, a conditional confirmation of attendance for at least one in-person meeting or event, the conditional confirmation based on an indicated condition;

monitoring the indicated condition for the at least one in-person meeting or event; and

when the condition is met, modifying the conditional confirmation of attendance to a non-conditional confirmation of attendance.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indicated condition is based on a number of attendees.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising incrementing the number of confirmations of attendees after modifying the conditional confirmation of attendance.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the number of confirmations of attendees includes conditional confirmations and non-conditional confirmations for the at least one in-person meeting or event.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the number of confirmations of attendees is equal to a number of non-conditional confirmations for the at least one in-person meeting or event.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting, to at least a portion of the plurality of user terminals, data configured to display a number of conditional confirmations and a number of non-conditional confirmations.

7. A computer-implemented method for confirming attendance for in-person meetings or events, comprising:

transmitting, to a plurality of user terminals, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events;

receiving, from at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, a specified number of attendees and a conditional RSVP for at least one in-person meeting or event;

monitoring a number of RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event; and

when the number of RSVPs equals or exceeds the specified number of attendees, modifying the conditional RSVP to a non-conditional RSVP.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising incrementing the number of RSVPs after modifying the conditional RSVP.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the number of RSVPs includes conditional RSVPs and non-conditional RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the number of RSVPs is equal to a number of non-conditional RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting, to at least a portion of the plurality of user terminals, data configured to display a number of conditional RSVPs and a number of non-conditional RSVPs.

15. The system of claim 7, wherein the number of RSVPs is equal to a number of non-conditional RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event.

16. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one server computer is further configured to transmit, to at least a portion of the plurality of user terminals, data configured to display a number of conditional RSVPs and a number of non-conditional RSVPs.

12. A system for confirming attendance for in-person meetings or events, comprising at least one server computer including at least one processor, wherein the at least one server computer is configured to:

transmit, to a plurality of user terminals, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events;

receive, from at least one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, a specified number of attendees and a conditional RSVP for at least one in-person meeting or event;

monitor a number of RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event; and

when the number of RSVPs equals or exceeds the specified number of attendees, modify the conditional RSVP to a non-conditional RSVP.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one server computer is further configured to increment the number of RSVPs after modifying the conditional RSVP.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the number of RSVPs includes conditional RSVPs and non-conditional RSVPs for the at least one in-person meeting or event.