Patent ID: 7584114

Claim:
A method for integrating project events on a team collaboration server with personal calendar and scheduling clients, comprising: establishing for a project a collaboration space, on the team collaboration server, including a plurality of rooms in a hierarchy of rooms and within each of said plurality of rooms a plurality of sub-rooms with single sign on authentication to places within said hierarchy of rooms; establishing a project calendar in each of said plurality of said rooms in said hierarchy of rooms; establishing a personal calendar on one or more of said scheduling clients for a member of said project, said member designated by access control membership within a given sub-room in said hierarchy of rooms; receiving into a member profile indicia indicative of whether to send events published on said project calendar for said given sub-room in said hierarchy of rooms to said personal calendar; providing at least three calendar and scheduling formats, each of the calendar and scheduling formats specific to at least one calendar and scheduling client application, each calendar and scheduling format comprising particular and distinct operations and instructions; receiving into said member profile indicia indicative of a selected calendar and scheduling format of the at least three calendar and scheduling formats used by said member for said personal calendar; and responsive to creation of a created event in said project calendar for said given sub-room for said member having membership in said given sub-room, forwarding said created event from the team collaboration server to said personal calendar of said member in said selected calendar and scheduling format; performing the above operations for a plurality of members of said project; thereby automatically integrating and coordinating a project event between the personal calendars of the plurality of members of said project, wherein said personal calendars of said plurality of members include at least a first calendar and scheduling format and at least a second calendar and scheduling format distinct from the first calendar and scheduling format.