Quorum management of appointment scheduling
First Claim
1. A method for managing scheduling of appointments, the method comprising:
- sending an appointment invitation to each of a plurality of invitees to request the scheduling of an appointment;
receiving a plurality of appointment management requests associated with the appointment after sending the appointment invitation, where at least one appointment management request comprises a request to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment, wherein the appointment management request further includes a proposal for the requested change to the appointment;
determining, using a processor, whether a subset of the received appointment management requests comprise a common request to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment to the proposed requested change;
determining, using a processor, whether invitees that sent the common request satisfy a quorum constraint for the appointment; and
implementing the common request in response to invitees that sent the common request satisfying the quorum constraint.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing scheduling of appointments with respect to a quorum requirement. The solution includes scheduling an appointment with each of a plurality of invitees, receiving one or more appointment management requests associated with the appointment from the invitees, the one or more appointment management requests including a change in the appointment, determining that a subset of the appointment management requests constitute a common request, determining that invitees that sent the common request satisfy the quorum constraint for the appointment, and implementing the common request in response to invitees that sent the common request satisfying the quorum constraint. The common request may include an acceptance, a cancellation notice, a cancellation request, and a re-scheduling request.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for managing scheduling of appointments, the method comprising:
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sending an appointment invitation to each of a plurality of invitees to request the scheduling of an appointment; receiving a plurality of appointment management requests associated with the appointment after sending the appointment invitation, where at least one appointment management request comprises a request to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment, wherein the appointment management request further includes a proposal for the requested change to the appointment; determining, using a processor, whether a subset of the received appointment management requests comprise a common request to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment to the proposed requested change; determining, using a processor, whether invitees that sent the common request satisfy a quorum constraint for the appointment; and implementing the common request in response to invitees that sent the common request satisfying the quorum constraint. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus for managing scheduling of appointments, the apparatus comprising a processor coupled to memory, wherein the processor is programmed to manage scheduling of appointments by implementing:
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an invitation module configured to send an appointment invitation to each of a plurality of invitees in response to an appointment request from a user, the appointment request indicating a quorum constraint defining a subset of the plurality of invitees required to accept the appointment invitation in order to schedule the appointment; a receiving module configured to receive at least one response to the appointment invitations from the invitees; an acceptance module configured to determine whether responses from invitees are responses accepting the appointment invitation; a quorum constraint module configured to; determine whether the invitees have submitted a common re-scheduling request that includes a proposal for a change to at least one of a time and a place for the appointment; and determine whether the invitees submitting the common re-scheduling request satisfy the quorum constraint; and a scheduling module configured to schedule the appointment with each invitee that sent a response accepting the appointment invitation in response to determining that the invitees that accepted the appointment invitations satisfy the quorum constraint and to re-schedule the appointment based upon the common rescheduling request and the proposed change if the common re-scheduling request satisfies the quorum constraint. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for managing scheduling of appointments, the method comprising:
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sending an appointment invitation to each of a plurality of invitees to request the scheduling of an appointment; scheduling an appointment with each of a plurality of invitees in response to an acceptance from one or more of the invitees, the one or more invitees that have accepted the appointment collectively satisfying a quorum constrain associated with the appointment; receiving at least one appointment management request associated with the appointment from the invitees, the at least one appointment management request comprising a request to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment, wherein the appointment management request further includes a proposal for the requested change to the appointment; providing access to the appointment management requests to each of the appointment invitees; determining whether a subset of the appointment management requests comprise a common request to change the appointment to the proposed change to the appointment; determining whether invitees that sent the common request satisfy the quorum constraint for the appointment to change at least one of a time and a place for the appointment; and implementing the common request in response to invitees that sent the common request satisfying the quorum constraint. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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