Patent ID: 8626550

Claim:
A method for scheduling subsidiary meeting locations for a meeting in a collaborative environment, the method comprising the steps of: sending a meeting invitation to a selection of invitees in the collaborative environment for at least one primary location; processing within a meeting host executing in a computer system, both complete acceptances and declinations to said meeting invitation from individual ones of said invitees for said primary location, and also partial acceptances to said meeting invitation from a set of said invitees in said selection a set of the partial acceptances requesting an alternative location that is different than the primary location; determining within the meeting host for said partial acceptances whether or not the alternative location has been designated as an acceptable subsidiary location or whether the alternative location has not yet been designated an acceptable subsidiary location; and, responsive to a threshold value being exceeded based upon a number of invitees in said set of invitees designating said alternative location that is determined to not yet have been designated an acceptable subsidiary location, designating said alternative location as an acceptable subsidiary location and processing acceptances for said set of invitees.