Patent ID: 7865387

Claim:
A method for scheduling a meeting for a set of attendees, wherein the set of attendees includes a special attendee and at least one additional attendee, the method comprising: generating a meeting request from a meeting organizer, wherein the meeting request designates the special attendee as a recipient of the meeting request and wherein the meeting request does not specify meeting commencement information, the meeting commencement information comprising a start time and a date; obtaining a selection by the special attendee of the meeting commencement information responsive to the meeting request, wherein the selection corresponds to acceptance of the meeting request and causes a calendar event to be placed on a calendar application of the special attendee; causing transmission to the at least one additional attendee of an updated meeting request specifying the selected meeting commencement information, wherein the updated meeting request is acceptable by each at least one additional attendee to place a corresponding calendar event on a calendar application of the at least one additional attendee; receiving a request for a modification, by the special attendee or a proxy of the special attendee, to the meeting commencement information, wherein the request comprises a change to the meeting commencement information that must be initiated by the special attendee or a proxy of the special attendee and cannot be initiated by the meeting organizer and the at least one additional attendee; and causing transmission to the meeting organizer and the at least one additional attendee of a second updated meeting request comprising the change to the meeting commencement information, wherein each of the steps is implemented by group scheduling software executed on a computer.