Patent ID: 7707256

Claim:
A method in a computer system for suggesting meeting locations for a meeting at a specified meeting time, each meeting location being a specific conference room, the method comprising: for each meeting attendee, identifying preferred meeting locations that are preferred by the meeting attendee by receiving from the meeting attendee a specification of preferred meeting locations that are conference rooms; identifying additional preferred meeting locations for the meeting attendee, an additional preferred meeting location is identified based on a location of a meeting that the meeting attendee will be attending at a time that is adjacent to the specified meeting time as indicated by a calendar of the meeting attendee; and creating a list of preferred and available meeting locations, the list of preferred and available meeting locations containing the identified preferred meeting locations and the additional preferred meeting locations that are available for use during the specified meeting time; identifying meeting locations that are common to the lists of preferred and available meeting locations of the meeting attendees; creating a list of suggested meeting locations, the list of suggested meeting locations containing a predetermined number of meeting locations from the identified common meeting locations; and suggesting the meeting locations in the list of suggested meeting locations as possible locations to conduct the meeting wherein a meeting location that is not of adequate size for the meeting is not included in the suggested meeting locations.