Technologies for automated scheduling of meetings
OwnerPaul English, Samuel Cohen +3inventors
InventorsPaul English, Samuel Cohen, Rachel Cohen, Swagata Chakrabarti, Ahmed Faraz
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OwnerPaul English, Samuel Cohen +3inventors
InventorsPaul English, Samuel Cohen, Rachel Cohen, Swagata Chakrabarti, Ahmed Faraz
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Technologies for automated scheduling of meetings includes receiving an email communication including an indication of a request to schedule the meeting. In response, each day within a range of days is allocated into time slots and each time slot is assigned an availability score based on an indicated availability of each participant of the requested meeting. Each time slot is assigned a time slot score based on the availability score, a time slot bonus based on the time of day of the corresponding time slot, and a day penalty based on a temporal distance to the day in which the corresponding time slot occurs. The time slot in which to schedule the meeting is selected based on the time slot score of each corresponding time slot. If a time slot within a reference day range cannot be identified, one or more conflicting meetings may be rescheduled to a new time slot based on various characteristics of the requested meeting, the conflicting meeting, and the new time slot.
A method for automated scheduling of a meeting, the method comprising:
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