Patent ID: 7082402
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for scheduling time intervals for a plurality of invitees comprising: database means in communication with one or more server means for storing one or more invitee profiles for one or more potential invitees of the system, the one or more invitee profiles comprising user profiles wherein each user profile comprises information regarding available and unavailable times for that user and an electronic mail address for the user; request generating means, connected over a network to the one or more server means, for generating a request for allocation of a time interval for the one or more potential invitees; busy time determination means for gathering the one or more invitee profiles for the one or more potential invitees that were requested by the request generating means and that are available in the database means and automatically determining whether those one or more potential invitees are available during the time interval requested by the request generating means; means for scheduling a meeting by using the electronic mail address in the invitee profile to automatically send each of the one or more potential invitees available an electronic mail invitation to attend at the time interval requested based on the automatic determination made by the busy time determination means as to whether those one or more potential invitees are available during the time interval requested, wherein each of the one or more potential invitees that receives an electronic mail invitation becomes an invitee; means for enabling the invitee to respond to the electronic mail invitation; and means for automatically updating the invitee's invitee profile based on the invitee's response to the electronic mail invitation.