Patent №
US 5,774,867
Granted
1998-06-30
Filed 1993
Owner
IBM CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08037983
A method and apparatus are provided for camping on an electronic calendar. In one embodiment, the invention determines, in response to an input of a date, a time and a duration of a proposed meeting between a meeting requester and a target, that a conflicting event appears on the target's electronic calendar, monitors the target's electronic calendar to detect the removal of the conflicting event, and schedules a meeting between the requester and the target on their electronic calendars in response to the detection of the removal of the conflicting event.
AI classification
Ownership
IBM CORPORATION
assignment · 64910899
Assignors
FITZPATRICK, GREGORY P., WILLIAMS, MARVIN L.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.