Techniques for resolving conflicts in scheduling conferences

摘要

Techniques for scheduling a conference among multiple persons includes receiving a conference request to schedule a particular conference. The conference request includes quorum data and limit data. The quorum data indicates a quorum of persons to conduct the particular conference. The limit data indicates a limit on a property of the particular conference, such as a limit on the date, time, location, language, or travel cost. The method also includes receiving availability data from a shared database that includes information about a recorded commitment of time for each person of a population. Also received is priority data that indicates an importance to an organization that a particular recorded commitment of a particular person is honored. A proposed time interval for the particular conference is determined based on the conference request and the availability data and the priority data.