Appointment negotiation systems and methods
AssigneeCalendar Research LLC
InventorMichael Hunter Gray
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method that includes sending a negotiating message from a user to one or more invitees using a messaging protocol, the negotiating message comprising one or more plans for a meeting, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting. The method further includes receiving, using the messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans and determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- forming a group that comprising of members;
- sending or receiving one or more group chat messages to or from each of the members in the group;
- sending a chat message to group members for one or more plans for a meeting, the one or more plans comprises a time and location information;
- updating the calendar system of each of the group members by placing a tentative calendar event based on the received chat messages.
A method comprising,
- sending a negotiating message from a user to one or more invitees using a messaging protocol;
- the negotiating message comprising one or more plans for a meeting, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting;
- receiving, using the messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans;
- and
- determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees.
An apparatus comprising:
- a appointment negotiation system configured to receive one or more plans for a meeting from an organizer, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting between an organizer and one or more invitees;
- receiving, using a text messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans;
- determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees;
- and
- sending a message to the organizer and the one or more invitee regarding the status of the one or more plans based on the responses received from the organizer and the one or more invitees.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.