Patent ID: 7818198
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a computing device, a method for autonomically managing a meeting calendar comprising: a processor of the computing device executing a scheduling utility to perform the steps of: detecting a set of pre-scheduling data; generating an optimal meeting schedule based upon the pre-scheduling data; communicating a meeting invitation; detecting an invitation reply data; generating and outputting to a meeting owner and meeting invitees a meeting probability value (MPV) based on pre-scheduling data and invitation reply data; automatically determining, at a pre-set date or time before the scheduled meeting date, whether MPV has reached a threshold by the preset data and time to execute a scheduling decision, wherein the scheduling decision is a decision from among retaining the meeting, rescheduling the meeting and canceling the meeting and the scheduling decision is scheduled to be made by a pre-set date or time before the meeting is to occur; in response to the MPV reaching a threshold, generating the scheduling decision; responsive to generating the scheduling decision, updating a meeting schedule of the meeting invitee and the meeting owner; and providing the updated meeting schedule within the respective meeting calendar of the meeting owner and the meeting invitee; wherein the set of pre-scheduling data includes at least one of: an organizational importance of the meeting owner and of each meeting invitee and a threshold for scheduling decision, wherein a more accurate probability of a meeting's viability is calculated by factoring in the organizational importance/ranking of the invitees in the MPV calculation, such that the higher the organizational ranking of a meeting invitee, the slower a decay of the MPV over a lifecycle of the scheduled meeting to allow more time for a higher ranking invitee to accept or decline the meeting invitation.