US 2006/0242639 A1 · Collaborative invitation system and method

Abstract

A set of collaborative contacts may be selected with an invitation user interface. An invitation to participate in a collaborative activity may be sent to the selected contacts from the invitation user interface or from a collaborative application. The invitation may be received by a collaborative services platform. A user of the collaborative services platform may be presented with the invitation along with an ability to choose one of accept, decline and ignore in response to the invitation. The user may choose to accept, decline or explicitly ignore the invitation, and a response may be sent to the sender of the invitation indicating the user's choice. An application programming interface for a collaborative invitation service of the collaborative services platform may include an invitation element, a send invitation element, a respond to invitation element and a cancel invitation element. The cancel invitation element may be used to cancel issued invitations.

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Dependent claims

A computer readable medium having thereon computer-executable instructions for collaborative invitation comprising:

selecting at least one contact with an invitation user interface;
determining if an invitation is to be sent to said at least one contact from the invitation user interface;
if it is determined that the invitation is to be sent from the invitation user interface then, at least:
launching a collaborative application;
and
sending the invitation from the invitation user interface;
and
otherwise, at least:
launching the collaborative application;
and
sending the invitation from the collaborative application.

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A computer readable medium having thereon computer-executable instructions for collaborative invitation comprising:

receiving an invitation to participate in a collaborative activity;
presenting the invitation to a user of a collaborative services platform along with an ability to choose one of accept, decline and ignore in response to the invitation;
receiving the choice of the user;
and
sending a response to the sender of the invitation, the response including an indication of the choice of the user.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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