Availability data service
A usability and data technology, applied in the direction of electrical digital data processing, special data processing applications, instruments, etc., can solve the problems that potential participants cannot control, are being used by another party, etc.
Inactive Publication Date: 2011-09-21
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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As a result, one or more persons may not be participating in the meeting and the desired asset may be in use by another party during the scheduled meeting
Furthermore, with such systems, the ability to retrieve availability data is typically limited to a relatively short time period into the future, with potential participants having little control over who can retrieve their availability data
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[0013] As briefly described above, embodiments of the invention are directed to retrieving real-time availability data (free / busy data) via an availability service for use by a requesting calendaring application in scheduling a meeting with one or more meeting participants and / or assets and and / or methods, systems and computer products used by the asset. In the following detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and which are shown as illustrating specific embodiments or examples. These embodiments may be combined, other embodiments may be used, and structural changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the following detailed description is not in a limiting sense, and the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
[0014] Various aspects of the invention and an exemplary computing operating environment are now described with re...
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Real time availability data (free / busy data) is provided for potential meeting attendees and / or assets. An availability service is queried for availability data for one or more attendees and / or meeting assets. The availability service determines the identity of an electronic mailbox server on which is stored current real time calendaring data for the desired attendees and / or assets. The requesteddata is retrieved by the availability service from one or more mailbox servers having data for each attendee and / or asset. Potential attendees may set permissions on their respective availability data to restrict the amount and types of data that may be retrieved by a given data requestor. Data queries and data responses may be structured according to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and application programming interfaces (API) may be exposed for allowing requesting applications to efficiently call the availability service for availability data.
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technical field [0001] The present application relates to providing availability data and, more particularly, to providing real-time availability data (free / busy data) of potential meeting participants and / or assets. Background technique [0002] Modern electronic calendar systems enable users to manage calendar data such as meetings, appointments, holidays, personal time, etc. All added efficiency, such as the ability to easily enter and edit data and view data using multiple different views such as day view, week view, etc. A particular benefit of an electronic calendar system is scheduling with one or more participants and / or assets ( such as conference rooms, video teleconferencing equipment, etc.). For example, if a meeting organizer wishes to schedule a meeting with three participants in a given meeting room, the organizer may request data about the desired participants and when the meeting room will be available. [0003] According to existing methods and systems, ...
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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/00
Inventor D·穆里洛J·梅安斯S·M·格蒂W·R·艾维尔A·默克
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC