Patent ID: 7774478

Claim:
A method for scheduling a subsequent communication session, comprising: receiving, at a first communications device associated with a first user, a request for a communication session from a second communications device associated with a second user; sending a scheduling trigger message from the first communications device to a server in response to a failure to accept said request, the scheduling trigger message comprising an indication of the failure to accept and an identifier of the second user; automatically forming, at said server, a calendar data object responsive to receiving the scheduling trigger message; said calendar data object comprising scheduling information indicating one or more future times when said first user is available for a communication session; sending said calendar data object to one of said first or second communications devices; thereafter, selecting a time from said one or more future times as a selected time at said one of said first or second communications devices; thereafter, automatically notifying the other of said first and second communications devices of said selected time via said server.