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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAmer Aref Hassan, Gareth Lyndon Eadred Bridges, Shaun Paul Dunning
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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.
A method, for execution on a data processing system, for reconciling a meeting conflict caused by overlapping meetings assigned to a meeting room, the method comprising:
A system for reconciling a meeting conflict caused by overlapping meetings assigned to a meeting room, the system comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions that cause a data processing system to reconcile a meeting conflict caused by overlapping meetings assigned to a meeting room, the computer-executable instructions causing the one or more processing units of the data processing system to:
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