Patent ID: 7992089

Claim:
A method for generating a display image to indicate a meeting acceptance status for on-line users invited to a meeting, comprising: a) sending, via a communication link, two or more invitations of said meeting to respective two or more invitees for said meeting; b) receiving, at a host device, respective responses associated with each of said two or more invitees, each said responses indicating a decline or acceptance attendance status of each respective invitee; c) processing, at said host device, said received responses and generating a display representing anonymous information about overall invitation status of at least each said respective responding invitees, said display having one or more portions, each portion having one or more display attributes, each attribute representing information concerning said meeting and indicating a current overall invitation status; and d) communicating said generated display to each of said two or more and other invitees via an on-line display device associated with each invitee; wherein a display attribute represents importance of an attendee, said host device providing a weighting such that a display attribute representing more important attendees as shown in a displayed image portion is larger than corresponding display attributes of other attendees.