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| 20100250321 | QUORUM MANAGEMENT OF APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - 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. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110004503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CALENDAR EVENTS WHILE PREPARING FOR TIME OUT-OF-OFFICE - In a calendar messaging method and system, a calendar application executing on a computer receives a command to activate an out-of-office status, and receives one or more selected calendar events. The method and system further include automatically updating the calendar events, wherein the updating includes at least one of canceling the calendar events, and removing the user as an invitee of the calendar events. An out-of-office message is then automatically sent to at least one recipient indicating a type of update made to one or more of the calendar events. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110087740 | LEVERAGING POINT-IN-TIME KNOWLEDGE TO RESPOND TO E-MAIL - Point-in-time actions are leveraged between computers that receive the same asynchronous electronic message. A point-in-time action is performed at a first receiving computer in response to receipt of an asynchronous electronic message. The point-in-time action results in an action alert, which is transmitted to a second receiving computer that also received the asynchronous electronic message. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110161434 | SITUATION BASED PRESENCE NOTIFICATION LEVERAGING - Presence messages are managed for one or more members of a pre-defined group of e-mail users. An unavailability time period, during which a pre-defined group of e-mail users will be unavailable in the future, is established. A notice, which notifies the pre-defined group of e-mail users that an unavailability control instruction will be sent in the future to participating members of the group of e-mail users, is transmitted to the group of e-mail users. An acceptance signal, identifying the participating members, is received, indicating which members of the group of e-mail users agree to permit the unavailability control instruction to be received and implemented on their participating computers in the future. The unavailability control instruction is then transmitted to the participating computers at an initiation of the unavailability time period, in order to auto-generate an appropriate presence message for the participating members. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161487 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A method and computer program product includes calculating a score for one or more communication sessions on a communication device, associating the score with the one or more communication sessions, and measuring a performance metric on the communication device. The performance metric may be indicative of a load on the communication device, and may be caused, at least in part, by the one or more communication sessions. If the performance metric on the communication device falls outside an acceptable value, a number of participants in at least one of the one or more communication sessions may be reduced based on the score associated with the at least one of the one or more communication sessions. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110314098 | RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Managing relationships in a social network service implemented by at least one processor includes: establishing with the at least one processor a quantified interaction goal for at least a first party and a second party corresponding to a period of time; determining with the at least one processor, prior to an expiration of the period of time, that a current quantified accumulated interaction between the first party and the second party is inconsistent with the quantified interaction goal; and automatically performing a remedial action with the at least one processor to facilitate adjusting the quantified accumulated interaction between the first party and the second party to a level consistent with the quantified interaction goal. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320275 | ADVERTISING PROXIMITY ROUTE SELECTION - A request for route information to a destination is received by a route processing module. Available routes to the destination are determined in response to receiving the request. It is determined, for at least one available route to the destination, whether the available route provides proximity to at least one targeted advertisement. At least one available route to the destination is provided upon determining that the available route provides the proximity to the targeted advertisement. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120005613 | CREATING AND MANAGING LOCATION BASED MEETINGS - A method and computer program product for creating and managing location based meetings is described. A method may comprise creating a local meeting entry, the local meeting entry referencing a global meeting entry in a different location. The method may further comprise propagating a schedule change in the global meeting entry to the local meeting entry. The method may also comprise rescheduling a resource reserved for the local meeting entry based upon, at least in part, the schedule change in the global meeting entry. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005728 | MANAGING MEETING INVITATIONS TO SUB-INVITEES - A computer implemented method manages meeting invitations to sub-invitees. A meeting coordinating computer detects a meeting invitation being sent from a meeting moderator's computer to a primary invitee's computer. The meeting coordinating computer intercepts a response from the primary invitee's computer. This response contains a request for a sub-invitee to accompany the primary invitee to the meeting. If the sub-invitee is initially authorized by the meeting coordinating computer to attend the meeting, then a request is transmitted to the meeting moderator's computer for additional authorization to invite the sub-invitee to the meeting. | 01-05-2012 |
