Method and meeting scheduler for automated meeting scheduling using delegates, representatives, quorums and teams

A meeting scheduler for automated meeting scheduling using delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams comprising:

• an electronic calendar meeting scheduling program storing meeting settings and invitees data for a meeting;
• said meeting settings and invitees data including an invitee attendance type, delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams data;
• and
• said electronic calendar meeting scheduling program utilizing said stored invitee attendance type, delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams data to identify a solution time block for automated meeting scheduling including at least a subset of a plurality of selected invitees.

A computer program product for automated meeting scheduling using delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams, said computer program product including a plurality of computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, wherein said instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of:

• storing meeting settings and invitees data for a meeting;
• said meeting settings and invitees data including an invitee attendance type, delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams data;
• calculating a selection score for each potential time block for automated meeting scheduling utilizing said stored meeting settings and invitees data including said invitee attendance type, delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams data;
• and setting said selection score to unusable responsive to identifying less than a quorum of available quorum members;
• identifying an insufficient number of available team members;
• or identifying an insufficient number of available consulting team members;
• discarding each said potential time block having said selection score set to unusable;
• identifying a solution time block for automated meeting scheduling utilizing said invitee attendance type, delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams data with said calculated selection score for each said potential time block.