Patent ID: 7421401

Claim:
A calendaring system for scheduling meetings comprising: means for receiving a meeting request specifying a meeting time, at least one participant, and a supplemental meeting service to be scheduled concurrently with the meeting; means for contacting a supplemental meeting system to determine supplemental meeting service information for the supplemental meeting service; means for determining that the supplemental meeting system is not available; means for notifying the participants of the meeting time and that the supplemental meeting service information has not been determined; means for repeatedly attempting to obtain the supplemental meeting service information from the supplemental meeting system until a predetermined time prior to the meeting time; means for notifying the participants of the supplemental meeting service information if the supplemental meeting service information is obtained before the predetermined time prior to the meeting time; means for querying the meeting owner whether to notify the participants of supplemental meeting service information determined outside of the calendaring system if the supplemental meeting service information is not obtained before the predetermined time prior to the meeting time; means for querying the meeting owner whether to notify the participants that the meeting has been cancelled if the supplemental meeting service information is not obtained before the predetermined time prior to the meeting time.