Patent ID: 8175904

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for the intermediation of real time meetings, comprising: receiving an indication by a requester system that a requester (R-A) wants to request a realtime meeting M-A with a target T-A; sending to a decider system (D) a request to conduct a real time meeting M-A; queuing the request for the meeting M-A by the decider system; receiving by the decider system (D) an availability status of T-A; receiving by the decider system (D) an availability status of R-A, where a possible availability status includes not available; receiving an indication by the requester system that a requester (R-B) wants to request a realtime meeting M-B with target T-B, the meeting M-B to be disjoint in time with the meeting M-A; and such that one of the parties to M-A (R-A or T-A), known as the ‘common party’ is also the same as one of the parties to M-B (R-B or T-B) and thus there are three distinct parties, the decider D being associated with the common party; sending to the decider system (D) a request to conduct a real time meeting M-B; queuing the request for the meeting M-B by the decider system, such that requests for at least two distinct meetings, disjoint in time are placed in the queue, so that multiple pending real time meetings for the common party are in the queue at the same time; receiving by the decider system (D) an availability status of targer T-B; receiving by the decider system (D) an availability status of the requester R-B, where a possible availability status includes not available; initiating, by the decider, one of the two meetings M-A and M-B by connenting the common party and the other party to that meeting when the common party and that other party are mutually available; and dequeuing the request for a meeting.