AUTOMATION OF MEETING SCHEDULING AND TASK LIST ACCESS PERMISSIONS WITHIN A MEETING SERIES

摘要

A computer software for managing electronic meetings. The meeting management system includes a Meeting Series feature. Individual meetings with at least one common characteristic may be grouped into a Meeting Series. The Meeting Series has a number of users/members associated with the entire Meeting Series and each individual meeting within the Meeting Series. Each meeting has a plurality of tasks associated with the meeting. The tasks are assigned to members. The members can access the task list for an individual meeting or the entire Meeting Series. The task list is dynamic and filtered based on the predefined permission rules. New meetings within the Meeting Series may be scheduled manually or automatically based on the status of the tasks associated with the Meeting Series. The list of members invited to each new meeting is prepopulated based on their membership within the Meeting Series and the status of the task assigned to them.

主权项

1. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for performing a method by running a software program on a computer, the computer operating under an operating system, the method including issuing instructions from the software program to perform a series of steps comprising:
establishing a meeting series having a plurality of meetings, each meeting having a plurality of task objects; assigning a plurality of members to the meeting series; linking the task objects to the members of the meeting series; authenticating a user into the software program; responsive to a first user input, generating a task list, wherein generation of the task list comprises the steps of:
retrieving all task objects associated with the plurality of meetings within the meeting series;filtering the retrieved task objects based on a predefined set of user access permissions to identify a first plurality of task objects linked to the user and a second plurality of task objects the user is permitted to access;populating the task list with the first and the second pluralities of task objects; outputting the task list to the user; and responsive to a second user input, filtering the task list to contain only the task objects associated with an individual meeting from the plurality of meetings within the meeting series.