Scheduling management environment for cordinating allocation of external resources to a plurality of competing company activities

A method for coordinating limited resources selected from a plurality of limited resources and distributed within a pair of scheduled time periods, the method for execution on a computer processor using stored instructions, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving a request for calendar access by a first company;
• displaying a first time period of the pair of scheduled time periods for a first activity of the first company in a calendar, the display of the first time period including a first set of limited resources with identifying resource information;
• displaying a second time period for a second activity of a second company in the calendar, the display of the second time period including a second set of limited resources with identifying resource information;
• accessing a storage containing the plurality of limited resources associated with one or more category limitations to determine the booking information of a selected limited resource, the booking information pertaining to the selected limited resource contained within the second set of limited resources;
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• sending the booking information to the first company indicating whether the selected limited resource is available for booking or is booked for the second activity.