Patent ID: 8433753
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing a meeting database having information on scheduled meetings, wherein a meeting server manages access to the meeting database; interfacing, by the meeting server, with an email server to provide information on meetings from the meeting database to an email database including email accounts and calendars of scheduled events for users, wherein the email server manages access to the email database and maintains a calendar component having user scheduled events, wherein the provided meeting information includes information on invitees to the meeting; storing, by the email server, the provided information on the meetings in the email database in response to a call from the meeting server; receiving, by the email server, invocation from one of the invitees that received a message to schedule the meeting, wherein the invitee makes the invocation to be added as an attendee of the meeting; updating, by the email server, the calendar of scheduled events in the email database for the users invoking the scheduled meeting to include information from the meeting database on the scheduled meeting in the email database; notifying, by the email server, the meeting server of the invitee invoking the email server to schedule the meeting; and updating, by the meeting server, the meeting database to indicate the invoking invitee as the attendee.