Patent ID: 7716078

Claim:
A method for scheduling events, comprising the steps of: creating an electronic sports schedule database for each of one or more events associated with each of a plurality of differing entities; activating a schedule manager that displays the one or more events according to permissions to view and update data associated with the one or more events based on a user type, the user type being defined by a profile that indicates that the user type is one of at least four user types comprising a scheduler, an athletic administrator, a sports association and a system administrator, wherein a profile for a scheduler user type includes an indication of a sport; prompting for a sport if the user type is an athletic administrator or a sports association; and updating the electronic sports schedule database to indicate an agreement between two of the plurality of differing entities to conduct at least one event of the one or more events on an agreed upon date and location, or to indicate that a date for the prompted sport as unavailable if the user type is one of athletic administrator and sports association; wherein the electronic sports schedule database is accessible by the plurality of differing entities over a network, and wherein the steps of creating, activating, prompting and updating are performed by a computer.