Method for avoiding bandwidth shortage for online meetings

A computing system comprising:

• one or more processors, and
• memory storing instructions executable by said one or more processors, including instructions that cause the computing system to:
• via an online event scheduling system, receive a meeting request for an online meeting from an organizer, said meeting request comprising information about a time slot for and a number of participants of said online meeting;
• in response to the received meeting request, determine whether an organization which the organizer belongs to has a meeting token available for said time slot and said number of participants;
• allocate the available meeting token to the requested online meeting;
• and
• after the allocating, send an acknowledgement to the online event scheduling system, allowing the online event scheduling system to book the online meeting for the participants in the online event scheduling system;
• wherein a finite number of meeting tokens, including the allocated meeting token, has been provided to the organization based on a communication bandwidth available for said organization, such that a maximum number of concurrent online meetings in the organization is limited by the finite number of meeting tokens, each provided meeting token having a size specifying a maximum number of participants of an online meeting for which it can be allocated.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system with one or more processors, cause the computing system to:

• via an online event scheduling system, receive a meeting request for an online meeting from an organizer, said meeting request comprising information about a time slot for and a number of participants of said online meeting;
• in response to the received meeting request, determine whether an organization which the organizer belongs to has a meeting token available for said time slot and said number of participants;
• allocate the available meeting token to the requested online meeting;
• and
• after the allocating, send an acknowledgement to the online event scheduling system, allowing the online event scheduling system to book the online meeting for the participants in the online event scheduling system;
• wherein a finite number of meeting tokens, including the allocated meeting token, has been provided to the organization based on a communication bandwidth available for said organization, such that a maximum number of concurrent online meetings in the organization is limited by the finite number of meeting tokens, each provided meeting token having a size specifying a maximum number of participants of an online meeting for which it can be allocated.