Appeal No. 96-2097
Application 08/037,983
appears on an electronic calendar of the target at the requested
meeting time. Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:
1. A method, performed in a data processing system, for
scheduling a meeting between a requester and a target on an
electronic calendar maintained on the data processing system by
the target, wherein said requester and said target are separate
entities, the method comprising the computer implemented steps
of:
determining, in response to an input, to the data processing
system, of a date, a time and a duration of a proposed meeting
between the requester and the target, that a conflicting event
appears on the electronic calendar maintained on the data
processing system by the target for the date and time and during
the duration input to the data processing system;
in response to a selection, by the requester, upon the
determination that a conflicting event appears on the electronic
calendar maintained by the target, to monitor the electronic
calendar maintained by the target for the removal of the
conflicting event, and also in response to the determination that
the conflicting event appears on the electronic calendar
maintained by the target, monitoring the electronic calendar
maintained by the target to detect the removal of the conflicting
event from the electronic calendar maintained by the target; and
scheduling a meeting between the requester and the target on
the electronic calendar maintained by the target, in response to
the detection of the removal of the conflicting event from the
electronic calendar maintained by the target.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Hotaling et al. (Hotaling) 5,124,912 Jun. 23, 1992
McGaughey, III et al. (McGaughey) 4,977,520 Dec. 11, 1990
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