Patent ID: 9009227
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling meeting extensions using an electronic meeting scheduling system, comprising: enabling, via the electronic meeting scheduling system, a second user invited to a meeting by an invitation from a first user via an electronic meeting scheduling system to invite, by using an extended invitation, one or more third users to the meeting; creating, based on the invitation from the first user and the extended invitation by the second user, a hierarchical data structure that represents the first user invitation and the extended invitation; preventing a notification of the extended invitation from being sent to said first user and invitees invited by said first user other than said second user; applying one or more meeting attributes, set by the second user, to said one or more third users; and automatically sending, via the electronic meeting scheduling system and according to the created hierarchical data structure, one or more modifications made to said one or more meeting attributes to said one or more third users, wherein the meeting is one of a multimedia conference, a teleconference, a video conference and an audio conference, and said one or more meeting attributes include one or more of: at least time duration of the meeting, time duration within the meeting during which said one or more third users are invited to participate, descriptive information associated with the meeting which said one or more third users can access wherein a processor coupled to a memory device perform the steps of: enabling, creating, preventing, applying, and sending.