MEETING ROOM STATUS BASED ON ATTENDEE POSITION INFORMATION

• US 20140149519A1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Linkedln Corporation
• Inventors: Redfern, Joff, Sai, Jayant
• Application Number:
  US13/688,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149519A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• 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 may include a processor and a network interface. The processor may be configured to set a meeting room status of a meeting room over a selected time period to unavailable based on a meeting organizer specifying the time period and an attendee of a meeting, obtain a location status of the attendee during the selected time period, and change the meeting room status to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of the attendee being not in proximity of the meeting room. The network interface may be configured to transmit the meeting room status to a user device.

Claims

1. A memory device, the memory device communicatively coupled to a processor and comprising instructions which, when performed on the processor, cause the processor to:

set a meeting room status of a meeting room over a selected time period to unavailable based on a meeting organizer specifying the time period and an attendee of a meeting;

obtain a location status of the attendee during the selected time period;

change the meeting room status to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of the attendee being not in proximity of the meeting room; and

transmit the meeting room status to a user device.

2. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the meeting room status is set based on the meeting organizer specifying the time period and a plurality of attendees of the meeting;

wherein the location status of each of the plurality of attendees during the selected time period is obtained; and

wherein the meeting room status is changed to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of none of the attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

3. The memory device of claim 2, wherein the memory device further comprises instructions that further cause the processor to:

determine individual ones of the plurality of attendees who are not in the meeting room based on the location status of the individual ones of the plurality of attendees; and

transmit a message to a user device of each of the plurality of attendees who are not in proximity of the meeting room based on at least one of the plurality of attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

4. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the memory device further comprises instructions that further cause the processor to:

transmit a message to a user device of the attendee based on the location status of the attendee not being in proximity of the meeting room.

5. The memory device of claim 4, wherein the message includes a query regarding a prospective status of the meeting, and wherein the memory device further comprises instructions that further cause the processor to:

receive a response from the user device to the query; and

set the meeting room status to available based on the response indicating a cancellation of the meeting.

6. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the memory device further comprises instructions that further cause the processor to determine the location status of the attendee based on:

the attendee checking in upon arriving in proximity of the meeting room; and

the attendee checking out upon leaving the proximity of the meeting room.

7. The memory device of claim 6, wherein the memory device further comprises instructions that further cause the processor to automatically check the attendee in and automatically check the meeting attendee out based on a position information of a user device of the meeting attendee.

8. A method, comprising:

setting a meeting room status of a meeting room over a selected time period to unavailable based on a meeting organizer specifying the time period and an attendee of a meeting;

obtaining a location status of the attendee during the selected time period;

changing the meeting room status to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of the attendee being not in proximity of the meeting room; and

transmitting the meeting room status to a user device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the meeting room status is set based on the meeting organizer specifying the time period and a plurality of attendees of the meeting;

wherein the location status of each of the plurality of attendees during the selected time period is obtained; and

wherein the meeting room status is changed to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of none of the attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining individual ones of the plurality of attendees who are not in the meeting room based on the location status of the individual ones of the plurality of attendees; and

transmitting a message to a user device of each of the plurality of attendees who are not in proximity of the meeting room based on at least one of the plurality of attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting a message to a user device of the attendee based on the location status of the attendee not being in proximity of the meeting room.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the message includes a query regarding a prospective status of the meeting, and further comprising:

receiving a response from the user device to the query; and

setting the meeting room status to available based on the response indicating a cancellation of the meeting.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising determining the location status of the attendee based on:

the attendee checking in upon arriving in proximity of the meeting room; and

the attendee checking out upon leaving the proximity of the meeting room.

14. A system, comprising:

a processor configured to;

set a meeting room status of a meeting room over a selected time period to unavailable based on a meeting organizer specifying the time period and an attendee of a meeting;

obtain a location status of the attendee during the selected time period; and

change the meeting room status to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of the attendee being not in proximity of the meeting room; and

a network interface configured to transmit the meeting room status to a user device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the meeting room status is set based on the meeting organizer specifying the time period and a plurality of attendees of the meeting;

wherein the location status of each of the plurality of attendees during the selected time period is obtained; and

wherein the meeting room status is changed to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of none of the attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

16. The system of claim 15:

wherein the processor is further configured to determine individual ones of the plurality of attendees who are not in the meeting room based on the location status of the individual ones of the plurality of attendees; and

wherein the network interface is further configured to transmit a message to a user device of each of the plurality of attendees who are not in proximity of the meeting room based on at least one of the plurality of attendees being in proximity of the meeting room.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the network interface is further configured to transmit a message to a user device of the attendee based on the location status of the attendee not being in proximity of the meeting room.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the message includes a query regarding a prospective status of the meeting;

wherein the network interface is further configured to receive a response from the user device to the query; and

wherein the processor is further configured to set the meeting room status to available based on the response indicating a cancellation of the meeting.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the location status of the attendee based on:

the attendee checking in upon arriving in proximity of the meeting room; and

the attendee checking out upon leaving the proximity of the meeting room.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to automatically check the attendee in and automatically check the meeting attendee out based on a position information of a user device of the meeting attendee.