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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2009
Colm Farrell, Dublin, IE;
Liam Harpur, Dublin, IE;
Patrick O'sullivan, Dublin, IE;
Fred Raguillat, Meath, IE;
Daniel Terlizzi, Arezzo, IT;
Carol S. Zimmet, Boxborough, MA (US);
Colm Farrell, Dublin, IE;
Liam Harpur, Dublin, IE;
Patrick O'Sullivan, Dublin, IE;
Fred Raguillat, Meath, IE;
Daniel Terlizzi, Arezzo, IT;
Carol S. Zimmet, Boxborough, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing scheduling of appointments with respect to a quorum requirement. The solution includes scheduling an appointment with each of a plurality of invitees, receiving one or more appointment management requests associated with the appointment from the invitees, the one or more appointment management requests including a change in the appointment, determining that a subset of the appointment management requests constitute a common request, determining that invitees that sent the common request satisfy the quorum constraint for the appointment, and implementing the common request in response to invitees that sent the common request satisfying the quorum constraint. The common request may include an acceptance, a cancellation notice, a cancellation request, and a re-scheduling request.