Patent ID: 8843558

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for arranging a meeting in a networked environment having nodes assigned to respective individual users, each of said nodes comprising one or more processors, said method being performed by one or more processors at one of said nodes and comprising: receiving a set of meeting requirements from a user at said one of said nodes, said requirements including at least a meeting time and a set of invitees and specifying a subset of said invitees by identifying invitees in said subset as critical employees; sending invitations for a meeting at said meeting time only to the invitees identified as critical invitees at the nodes of said networked environment assigned to said invitees based on one or more of said meeting requirements; confirming said meeting at said meeting time responsive to receiving acceptances from all of the invitees identified as critical invitees at the nodes of said networked environment assigned to said invitees, wherein the conforming comprises sending invitations to invitees not identified as critical invitees; and rescheduling or cancelling said meeting responsive to a failure to receive acceptances from all of the invitees identified as critical invitees at the nodes of said networked environment assigned to said invitees.