Patent ID: 8239236

Claim:
A method for scheduling a meeting for a set of recipients, wherein the set of recipients includes a special attendee and at least one additional attendee, the at least one additional attendee including a meeting organizer, the method comprising: obtaining an initial meeting request from the meeting organizer, wherein the meeting request does not specify meeting commencement information, the meeting commencement information corresponding to a start time and a date; generating a user interface for displaying the initial meeting request to the special attendee, wherein the user interface includes a meeting request queue displaying one or more selectable meeting requests, including the initial meeting request, which have not yet been assigned a specific start time and date, and wherein for each of the one or more selectable meeting requests, the user interface displays a requested duration and a meeting organizer associated with one of the selectable meeting requests; collecting input designated by the special attendee from the user interface, wherein the input specifies the meeting commencement information; transmitting the collected input; generating an updated meeting request using the collected input, the updated meeting request designating the set of recipients and specifying the meeting commencement information, making a modification, initiated by the special attendee or a proxy of the special attendee, to the collected input designated by the special attendee that specifies the meeting commencement information, wherein only the special attendee or the proxy of the special attendee can initiate the modification, and wherein the meeting organizer can neither initiate nor make the modification; and causing transmission to the at least one additional attendee including the meeting organizer of an updated meeting request comprising the modification to the collected input, wherein the method is implemented by group scheduling software executed on a computer.