Microsoft Corporation
Resource conflict detection and communication

Abstract:

A meeting assignment conflict, between two meetings, a, is detected, because a meeting organizer is attempting to assign a given conference room to a second meeting, when it is already assigned to a first meeting. It is determined whether a number of participants in the first meeting is small enough to be accommodated by a different conference room. If so, the first meeting is automatically reassigned to the different conference room, and the second meeting is assigned to the given conference room.