Patent ID: 7912745

Claim:
A method for scheduling a meeting for a set of attendees, wherein the set of attendees includes a special attendee and at least one additional attendee, the method comprising: generating a meeting request to be processed by the special attendee, wherein the meeting request designates the special attendee as a recipient of the meeting request and wherein the meeting request does not specify meeting commencement information, the meeting commencement information comprising at least one of a start time and a date, and further wherein the meeting request is acceptable by the special attendee to place a calendar event on a calendaring application; obtaining a selection by the special attendee of the meeting commencement information responsive to the meeting request; generating an updated meeting request specifying the selected meeting commencement information, wherein the updated meeting request is generated for transmission to the at least one additional attendee and is acceptable by each of the at least one additional attendee to place a corresponding calendar event on the calendaring application; making a change, initiated by the special attendee or a proxy of the special attendee, to the selected meeting commencement information, wherein only the special attendee or a proxy of the special attendee can initiate the change, and wherein a meeting organizer responsible for generating the meeting request can neither initiate nor make the change; and causing transmission to the meeting organizer and the at least one additional attendee of a second updated meeting request comprising the change to the meeting commencement information, wherein each of the steps is implemented by group scheduling software executed on a computer.