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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Amer Aref Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gareth Lyndon Eadred Bridges, Duvall, WA (US);
Shaun Paul Dunning, San Clemente, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed techniques are directed to a system that manages use scenarios implementing and managing deliberate overlapping meetings conference calls. For example, an executive may organize hybrid meetings by scheduling an all-day meeting, e.g., 9 AM to 5 PM, in a conference room, and also scheduling multiple sub-meetings with and joined by different attendees by coming to the conference room and/or joining from conference calls. For example, first sub-meetings may be scheduled from 9 AM to 11 AM and scheduled for the same conference room as the all-day meeting. Instead of rejecting the request to reserve the conference room for the sub-meeting, which in existing systems would occur because of the reservation set by the all-day meeting, the system accepts the request to reserve the conference room for the sub-meeting. The system also notifies all invitees of each sub-meeting of the conference room reservation.