Patent ID: 8494891

Claim:
A method in an information handling system of setting up a meeting comprising: sending a meeting invitation to invitees specifying logistics for a primary meeting and logistics for an alternate meeting; receiving responses from a plurality of the invitees indicating availability to attend at least one of the primary meeting and the alternate meeting; determining whether to wait for further responses from the invitees based on reaching a predefined time that is prior to both a meeting time of the primary meeting and a meeting time of the alternate meeting; either cancelling both the primary meeting and the alternate meeting, or selecting one of the primary meeting or the alternate meeting, based on the responses received from the plurality of invitees and the determining, the selecting done under control of the information handling system, wherein the information handling system selects between the primary meeting or the alternate meeting based, at least in part, on a need to hold the meeting earlier rather than later and a predicted attendance for the primary meeting and a predicted attendance for the alternate meeting by executing software instructions stored on a non-transitory machine readable storage device; and sending out final meeting notices, under control of the information handling system, to at least those of the plurality of invitees available to attend the selected meeting.