Method, system and program product for interactive electronic meeting scheduling
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1. A method using an agent program for interactively negotiating with an online meeting invitee and scheduling a meeting, said method comprising the steps of:
- receiving information from a meeting requester, said information identifying said meeting invitee and meeting criteria;
querying said invitee for invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
determining a resultant meeting schedule based on said invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
notifying said invitee and said meeting requester of said resultant meeting schedule.
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Abstract
A system, method and program product for interactively scheduling and negotiating meetings wherein an active agent program accepts meeting criteria from a meeting requester and interacts with invitees to resolve availability according to the meeting criteria. The agent transmits the negotiated meeting schedule to invitees and optionally requires confirmation from invitees.
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1. A method using an agent program for interactively negotiating with an online meeting invitee and scheduling a meeting, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving information from a meeting requester, said information identifying said meeting invitee and meeting criteria;
querying said invitee for invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
determining a resultant meeting schedule based on said invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
notifying said invitee and said meeting requester of said resultant meeting schedule. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system using an agent program for interactively negotiating with an online meeting invitee and scheduling a meeting, said system comprising:
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a receiver receiving information identifying said meeting invitee and meeting criteria from a meeting requester;
a query generator querying said invitee for invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
a determining mechanism determining a resultant meeting schedule based on said invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
a notify generator notifying said invitee and said meeting requester of said resultant meeting schedule. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer program product using an agent program for interactively negotiating with an online meeting invitee and scheduling a meeting, said computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable program code therein comprising the:
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computer readable program code for receiving information identifying said meeting invitee and meeting criteria from a meeting requester;
computer readable program code for querying said invitee for invitee availability information according to said meeting criteria; and
computer readable program code for determining a resultant meeting schedule based on said invitee availability information according, to said meeting criteria; and
computer readable program code for notifying said invitee and said meeting requester of said resultant meeting schedule. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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