Patent ID: 8050954

Claim:
A scheduling system, comprising: a computer-readable storage medium; software stored on the computer-readable medium, the software operable to: provide an interface to allow a user to input information regarding a meeting; provide an alternative attendee data field using the interface to allow a user to provide alternative attendee information, the alternative attendee information indicating whether an invitee to a meeting may send an alternate person to the meeting in place of the invitee; provide a privacy setting, using the interface, that is specific to the alternative attendee data field, the privacy setting allowing the user to provide said information regarding a meeting to a group of invitees while selectively preventing other invitees to the meeting from knowing whether a particular invitee to the meeting may send an alternate person to the meeting in place of the particular invitee; receive alternative attendee information using the interface; and store the alternative attendee information and associate such information with other data concerning the meeting.