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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2009
Filomena Ferrara, Rome, IT;
Scot Maclellan, Rome, IT;
Filomena Ferrara, Rome, IT;
Scot MacLellan, Rome, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A solution is proposed for managing collaborative working sessions (for example, meetings). A corresponding method () includes the following steps under the control of a data processing system (). At first, a set of working sessions is scheduled (-); each working session is to be attended by a plurality of participants; moreover, the working sessions require a set of common resources (for example, a meeting room). A communication address or more (for example, a mobile telephone number) is associated () with each participant. The method continues by signaling (-) an availability of the resources (for example, by dialing a service number and entering an identifier of a current meeting that is starting or an identifier of a preceding meeting that has just ended). In response thereto, the communication address associated with each participant to a current working session (being the first scheduled one still to be held) is retrieved (). It is then possible to send () a message (indicative of a holding of the current working session) to the communication address associated with each participant to the current working session.