Patent ID: 8359206
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest by performing the steps of: providing meeting management resources through a meeting facility, wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group, and wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to provide voting options for users to vote on at least one of the following: meeting venue, meeting agenda, meeting activity, meeting time, meeting date, or any combination thereof; receiving meeting group criteria from a user; providing to the user an indication of at least one meeting group of a plurality of meeting groups based on the user's received meeting group criteria, wherein the meeting groups have respective members; receiving from the user a selection of a meeting group to join; and enabling the organizer to accept the user as a new member to the meeting group and to manage meeting group user resources available to the user through a web-based graphical interface provided by the meeting facility.