Scheduling subsidiary meeting locations

A system for scheduling subsidiary meeting locations in a collaborative environment, the system comprising:

• a meeting scheduling application disposed in a meeting host;
• a schedule of meetings accessible by said meeting scheduling application having primary locations and designated subsidiary locations;
• and,
• subsidiary location designation logic coupled to said meeting scheduling application and programmed to determine, for partial acceptances to an invitation to a meeting, an alternative location to a primary location for said meeting which has not already been designated as a subsidiary location to said meeting, and, responsive to a threshold value being exceed based upon a number of invitees associated with said partial acceptances, designating said alternative location as an acceptable subsidiary location to said meeting and processing acceptances for said invitees.

A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for scheduling subsidiary meeting locations for a meeting in a collaborative environment, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions which when executed by the machine causes the machine to perform the steps of:

• sending a meeting invitation to a selection of invitees in the collaborative environment for at least one primary location;
• processing both complete acceptances and declinations to said meeting invitation from individual ones of said invitees for said primary location, and also partial acceptances to said meeting invitation from a set of said invitees in said selection;
• determining for said partial acceptances an alternative location to said primary location which has not already been designated as an acceptable subsidiary location;
• and,
• responsive to a threshold value being exceed based upon a number of invitees in said set of invitees designating said alternative location, designating said alternative location as an acceptable subsidiary location and processing acceptances for said set of invitees.