Electronic calendar management of privately owned resources

Within an electronic calendaring system, a method of scheduling private resources for use with meetings comprising:

• responsive to a client request, presenting a graphical user interface for scheduling a meeting;
• within at least one view of said graphical user interface, presenting means for requesting a meeting and means for requesting use, during said meeting, of at least one resource of a set of private resources which correspond to a class of users to which said client is associated;
• responsive to activation of said means for requesting at least one private resource, dynamically adding to said graphical user interface a reference to a private resource view;
• and
• responsive to a selection of said dynamically added reference, displaying said private resource view, wherein said private resource view includes at least one resource of said set of private resources for use during said requested meeting.

A machine-readable storage, having stored thereon a computer program having a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

• responsive to instructions received from a client of a calendaring system, defining a set of private resources which are available only to a predefined class of users for use with meetings;
• receiving a request to schedule a meeting from a client belonging to said class of users;
• presenting said set of private resources through said client;
• receiving a user selection indicating selected ones of said set of private resources to be used during said meeting;
• scheduling said meeting in said electronic calendaring system;
• and
• associating said selected ones of said set of private resources with said scheduled meeting.

A machine-readable storage, having stored thereon a computer program having a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

• responsive to a client request, presenting a graphical user interface for scheduling a meeting;
• within at least one view of said graphical user interface, presenting means for requesting a meeting and means for requesting use, during said meeting, of at least one resource of a set of private resources which correspond to a class of users to which said client is associated;
• responsive to activation of said means for requesting at least one private resource, dynamically adding to said graphical user interface a reference to a private resource view;
• and
• responsive to a selection of said dynamically added reference, displaying said private resource view, wherein said private resource view includes at least one resource of said set of private resources for use during said requested meeting.