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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Applicants:
Dan Grunspan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ehud Pardo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Derik Stenerson, Redmond, WA (US);
Tobin Zerba, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Dan Grunspan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ehud Pardo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Derik Stenerson, Redmond, WA (US);
Tobin Zerba, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention describes the scheduling requirements if a business to an automatic scheduling system in a way which allows efficient automatic scheduling of appointments for resources of the business. In one embodiment, the scheduling system schedules the resources based not only on total capacity, but based on how many appointments can be initiated at a given time.