Techniques for task management using presence

US8286183B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Randall B. Baird · Austin, US
• Labhesh Patel · San Francisco, US
• Denise Caballero-McCann · Raleigh, US
• Shmuel Shaffer · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2012
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/109
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for scheduling a task include receiving task data and quorum data. Task data describes tasks to be performed by one or more participants. Quorum data indicates a participant set of one or more participants to perform each task. Current user data may also be received. Current user data describes a current task set of one or more tasks currently being performed by a particular participant. Either or both of the task data and the current user data describe interruptibility through a particular medium of a plurality of communications media. A particular time interval to schedule a particular task is determined based at least in part on the interruptibility of the task or the particular participant. These techniques allow either or both unscheduled tasks and previously scheduled tasks to be moved to time intervals that overlap other scheduled tasks, including tasks currently being performed by a participant.