Patent ID: 9741020
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for identifying a conference room, performed by a computer system with one or more processors and memory, the method comprising: receiving a conference room scheduling request for a meeting; identifying, in a request queue, requests with meeting times that overlap with the requested meeting; identifying attendee locations of attendees for the conference room scheduling request and the requests with overlapping meeting times; identifying, for the conference room scheduling request and the overlapping meeting times, conference rooms in accordance with proximity between the conference rooms and the attendee locations, the identified conference rooms including less than all possible combinations of meetings and conference rooms; detecting, using a proximity sensor or a motion detector located in one or more of the conference rooms, whether a person is in each of the conference rooms; assigning one of the conference rooms to the conference room scheduling request and to each of the requests with overlapping meeting times based on the proximity between the conference rooms and the attendee locations and whether a person is in each of the conference rooms; determining conference room assignment fitness scores for the assigned conference rooms; and based on the conference room assignment fitness scores not exceeding a predefined threshold, identifying conference rooms, assigning conference rooms, and determining conference room assignment fitness scores until the conference room assignment fitness scores exceed the predefined threshold.