Robert S Trout

US Patent:

20090165022, Jun 25, 2009

Filed:

Dec 19, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/960368

Inventors:

Mark Hunter Madsen - Toronto, CA
Cameron Marlow - New York NY, US
Ronald Martinez - San Francisco CA, US
Marc Eliot Davis - San Francisco CA, US
Marco Boerries - Los Altos Hills CA, US
Christopher William Higgins - Portland OR, US
Joseph James O'Sullivan - Oakland CA, US
Robert Carter Trout - Burlingame CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

719318

Abstract:

The disclosure describes systems and methods for scheduling an event in which user data, which may include social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data, associated with each of the designated attendees of the event is used to prioritize and optimally schedule the event. Based on user data collected from past interactions with the network, for each attendee a priority score is generated for the event based on a comparison of the attendee's user data and the event information. One or more proposed alternate events are then identified based on the various attendees' priority scores of the event and their previously scheduled events. The organizer of the event may then select one of the proposed alternate events which is subsequently added to the attendees' electronic calendars.