KR20160098082A

KR20160098082A - Appointment Invitation Method and System

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Publication number: KR20160098082A
Application number: KR1020160015311A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 푸이 이에 아우; 가렛 웡
Original assignee: 에듀케이션 플래닛 리미티드
Priority date: 2015-02-10
Filing date: 2016-02-05
Publication date: 2016-08-18
Also published as: GB2536126A; CN105741083A; AU2016200406A1; SG10201600593TA; JP2016149126A; GB201602294D0; TW201629861A; HK1199370A2

Abstract

The present invention relates to an appointment method, wherein the appointment method comprises the steps of inviting an invitation message through the messaging module, which includes time information, optional participant information, and / or optional location information for an appointment with at least one invitee from the inviter ; Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And negotiating / re-negotiating an appointment based on at least a portion of one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined. The present invention enables more useful time utilization by sending and receiving real-time and intercommunication to determine and negotiate various appointments among desired participants while preventing exposing undesirable personalities.

Description

{Appointment Invitation Method and System}

The present invention relates to a communication method and system, and more particularly, to a method and system for inviting appointments to initiate and set appointments through a messaging module between at least two related participants.

In modern pace lifestyles, finding time by exchanging time to achieve something they want, such as skiing, resting, and business meetings from spending time with spouses and friends, is a waste of time and a challenge for everyone Respectively. Since time is limited and is the same for everyone, it is important to manage time effectively. It is also clear to many that the most important thing in life is time.

Currently, most appointments are made between a number of participants, including at least one invitee and at least one invitee via phone, email and / or video call, where time information, place information and possibly An invitation message containing participant information for the appointment is communicated to each participant and the details of such a message or appointment are continued by all interested parties until the appointment is determined and accepted by the targeted / And must be negotiated. In recent years, different calendar applications on various platforms or devices such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal, or the like have been used for the management of meetings or appointments, and all such applications are substantially Time-based and relatively time-consuming and less interactive than when implemented in real-time communication enabled devices such as smart phones, tablet computers / computer devices, notebook / netbooks, desktop PCs, System or service. Thus, it is desirable to have a real-time, relatively quick response capable of better utilizing time and more interactive invitation methods and systems and / or calendar systems.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an invitation method, system and application for at least partially overcoming the above mentioned drawbacks found in the prior art and for negotiating and making appointments relatively easily, quickly and in time.

Thus, one of the technical solutions provided for this purpose is an appointment invitation method, wherein the appointment invite method comprises: inviting at least one invitee from the inviter to inform the invitee of the target time and / or one or more preset alternative target times Sending an invitation message including time information through a messaging module;

Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And

Determining or negotiating / re-arranging an appointment based on at least a portion of one or more responses received from at least one invitee until an appointment is determined;

Advantageously, the invitation message further comprises participant information and / or location information optionally in the invitation message, such that the determination of appointment is independent of anyone. Preferably, the step of re-arranging the appointment comprises: in response to the desired modification, until the appointment is accepted by the inviter and at least one invitee and / or at least two invitees, Sending a message and receiving one or more responses from at least one invitee.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the invitation invitation method further comprises updating the original calendaring system of the messaging module by inserting the determined appointment.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the appointment invitation method further comprises exporting the determined appointment of the original calendar system to a conventional calendar system such as MS Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar, iCal, or the like.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a promised invitation method includes: acquiring location information of an invitee and at least one invitee; And adjusting the time information based on the location information while the message and the response are being transmitted.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, an appointment invitation method comprises the steps of acquiring location and / or time zone location information of an invitee and at least one invitee; And

And adjusting the time information based on the region or time zone location information while the message and the response are being transmitted.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the participant information includes a pseudonym that does not reveal specific personal details of the inviter and at least one invitee in order to prevent direct communication between invitees.

Alternatively, the participant information includes a pseudonym that does not expose specific personal details of each of the at least two invitees to prevent external direct communication between invitees.

According to another embodiment, certain personal details include a real name, an address, an ID number, an e-mail address, a telephone number, or specific data that enables external direct communication between them.

According to another embodiment, the means for determining an appointment includes determining whether the appointment has been accepted by the invitee and at least one invitee and / or at least two invitees based on at least a portion of the one or more responses .

According to yet another embodiment, the appointment invitation method of the present invention comprises the steps of: converting an invite message into an invite notification including a link to acquire basic information for appointment and a messaging module; And sending the invitee through a messaging protocol to the at least one invitee who fails to acquire the messaging module. Preferably, the messaging protocol is at least one SMS, MMS, or push notification for real-time communication.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a promissory invitation system comprising:

Means for sending, via a messaging module, an invitation message containing time information, optional participant information, and / or optional place (location) information for an appointment with the inviter and at least one invitee selected from the database;

Means for determining an appointment or negotiating / re-arranging an appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined;

Means for exchanging time information based on region and / or time zone location information of the invitee and at least one invitee while the message and response are being sent; And

And means for enabling appointment negotiation through the messaging module while preventing external direct communication between invitees while rebalancing appointments.

According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a program recorded on a medium for causing a computer device to perform a process for inviting an appointment when executed by the computer device,

Sending an invitation message through the messaging module, including an invitee and at least one invitee selected from the database, comprising an invitee, time information, optional participant information, and / or optional location information;

Determining an appointment or negotiating / reconciling an appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined, where the invitee and / Exchanging time information based on at least one invitee's location and / or time zone location information; And enabling appointment negotiation through the messaging module while preventing external direct communication between invitees while rescheduling the appointment.

The invitation method and system of the present invention allows negotiation and determination of appointments that are relatively easy, fast and time-effective.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an invitation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

In order to make the use of time more useful, the present invention provides various invitation methods and systems for negotiating appointments between at least two participants.

According to a first aspect of the present invention shown in Fig. 1, this is achieved by including an optional participant information and / or optional place (position) information, as well as time information for an appointment with at least one invitee selected from the database Sending an invite message through a messaging module (100); Receiving (200) via the messaging module one or more responses informing acknowledgment, acceptance, desired amendment, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And < RTI ID = 0.0 > 300 < / RTI > determining (300) determining an appointment or negotiating / revising an appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is established have.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the invitation method is based on and based on mobile applications implemented in real-time communication enabled devices, such as smart phones, tablet computers / computer devices, notebook / . This embodiment provides functions similar to conventional calendar applications, such as Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook Calendar, iCal, or the like, and similarly requires the use of highly reliable programming modules and services. The user registration must include at least a pseudonym / alias (for display purposes) and a mobile phone number, as well as a real name, address, ID number, email address (work / personal), phone number, , Or other optional data that enables external communication with another person.

As with a typical calendar application, this embodiment can record appointments with daily tasks and notifications that can be used and verified by the user. According to the present embodiment, the invitation message is preferably sent from the user / inviter through the messaging module to the friends / invitees via mobile phone numbers selected in the database (e.g., contacts / phonebook stored in the mobile phone or SIM card) . According to embodiments of the present invention, sending an invite message through a mobile phone number is the most desirable approach because it can overcome the drawbacks of other approaches. For example, using e-mail is a relatively uncomfortable way to perform appointment negotiations because the main use of e-mail is mostly business-related. In addition, the user may have non-daily stakeholders or friends who have only registered the phone number in the user's database and have not registered the email. In this regard, the sending of invite messages via mobile numbers can integrate daily / daily schedules by precise use of the user. On the other hand, the appointment invitation method may preferably be performed through a website or any computer device capable of real-time communication.

Preferably, the messaging module provides a user interface for selecting and editing various elements of the message, wherein the various elements of the message are sent to the invitee (one or more of the mobile phone contacts), one or more presentation times May include optional invitees, places, and / or subject / task information, and small side text-boxes for simple messaging; Also, the most frequently used or last selected / edited inputs for each of the above elements preferably include a drop-down bar such as an auto complete function, a list-box ), An edit box, or the like, as shown in FIG.

According to the present invention, a user sends an invitation message to at least one invitee through a mobile phone number. If the invitee has already been acquired and the application is installed, this invite message can be sent immediately with preconfigured options to notify each invitee of confirmation, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of the appointment. Preferably, one or more of the options are used to send the email addresses of the other recipients to the "to", "c.c." And "bcc" fields, assigning attributes to other invitees while sending the message may be possible for some invitees, and thus the appointment may be made to inform others of the changed information and the most recent situation Schedules can be readjusted by one or more preset invitees.

If more than one invitee establishes one or more of the desired modifications, this desired modification is arguably related to the time or place for a selective invitee or appointment, where each invitee and each participant, including one or more invitees, , And at least two invitees, if the appointment is accepted by the invitee and at least one invitee and / or the invitation does not intend to participate in the appointment and the invitee merely acts as an intermediary between them Sends the further modified invite messages to each other and receives one or more responses until accepted by the recipient.

The provision of the option for the desired modification permits the proposal of another time of appointment because it may be common to the invitee that it is difficult to respond to the invitation due to the scheduling redundancy, , But the proposed time may also not be acceptable to the invitee. Therefore, it is desirable that the invitees reverse the best time to speed up the process of rescheduling the schedule.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the invitee is required to enter a possible time of one to three to indicate the desired modification of the appointment and to send a message back to the inviter to begin a continuous process so that both parties are in agreement . Thus, this configuration improves the process of selecting the appointment time / date and confirming the appointment while reducing the waste of time in sending and receiving a large number of invitation messages without knowing the optimum time of the invitee.

If the invitee does not have an application, the invitation message is sent from the invitee to the invitee via a messaging protocol, with invitation notifications containing basic information for the appointment and a link to install the application. This notification may preferably be sent by SMS, MMS, or push notifications, or a combination thereof, to transmit real-time communications. You can say, "Hello, your friend, xxx (an alias of the inviter), Circler (application name) you promised! You can download Circler to accept this invitation!" The download link should preferably be written in it.

The user or invitee may be able to automatically accept invitations of certain friends (e.g., friends selected from the application's preference list), or to automatically reject certain people (e.g., those selected from its blacklist) The application can be preset.

According to this embodiment of the invention, the inviter will be immediately notified when the invitee accepts the invitation, and the appointment will be immediately recorded in the applications of both parties.

If the invitee chooses the option to make the desired modification to the time for appointment, it is required to enter another available time of 1-3 (or up to 5 or even 10), or a preset alternative time is requested by the invitee And this process is continuously carried out for both parties at a specific time and date. Similarly, the inviter will be notified immediately, and the appointment will be immediately recorded in the applications of both parties.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the appointment is stored in the inserted or original calendar system of the application by inserting the determined appointment. Preferably, the data for the determined appointment of the original calendar system is exported and stored in one or more conventional calendar systems, including MS Outlook Calendar, Apple iCal, Google Calendar, or a combination thereof.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the inviter will receive a rejection notification, this message will be automatically removed from the record of the application, and preferably such invite message will be sent to the invitee if the invitee chooses the rejection option, Can be recorded in the rejected log.

If the invitee simply wishes to confirm receipt of the message, the invitee may select an option for confirmation to inform the invitee that the status is pending and the invitee may later accept or reject the invitation, The message will be automatically logged in the application (ie, such invitation messages can be logged in the mooring log for later reference), and if a person accepts or declines the invitation or the invitation is lost (eg, No more notifications will be sent to both parties until the appointment time has passed).

In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, all complete or incomplete records or tasks may be modified or deleted, and invitations may be re-transmitted, and the contents may be modified at any time as needed.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises the step of reminding the participant concerned by sending a pre-reminder notification or by sending a pop-up banner at a specific time period before the appointment. The particular time period is pre-set by the user to ensure that the remind is sent at the appropriate moment, for example once or repeatedly one hour before the same day, and preferably this remind can be sent up to three days in advance. In addition, a reminder indication or pop-up banner allows the recipient to confirm or re-schedule the appointment. In the latter case, all parties to the appointment will be notified of the rescheduling schedule and a new invitation process will then begin.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the invitation message sent from the inviter differs from that of the prior art, which only includes time information for appointments, without informing the invitee of any information relating to the participant and / or the place of appointment. This invitation message serves as a guide to at least one invitee to say that the inviter is free and that it is possible to set and accept an appointment. The current approach is advantageous because you like to make better use of free and available time, but finding people in those cases can be relatively time consuming. Instead of looking for people, this embodiment reverses the process of finding people for meetings or appointments by sending an invitation message to other pre-selected parties to inform them of available dates and times for appointments. Preferably, the invitation should provide 1-3 selectable options for available time to increase the probability of making appointments with at least one invitee. After appointment - the most basic factor - for the appointment - is determined, the inviter and / or invitees can use the mobile phone or other means (phone, email, SMS, etc.) to discuss additional places and / To send another message. According to the present embodiment, the place and / or participants are considered optional and are not the basic elements for appointment, since appointments or meetings are remotely made through various devices capable of real-time communication. In addition, the final participants for an appointment may exclude the initial invitees and / or invitees who have arranged and arranged this appointment, as will be discussed in detail later.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the invitation message is used as an arrival announcement related to the appointment. For example, it is common to inform your opponents about your itinerary status so that you can make better revisions when you are scheduled on a certain date - but it is uncomfortable to call in some places, It can be quick and easy to tell everyone. According to the embodiment, when the appointment time is near, both parties can pop up the remind to ask if you have arrived at the destination. A simple popup message can be sent to inform you of your status, and this message can be used to indicate the current status of the sender, for example "arrival" or "going (preferably a few minutes A simple textbox for the message, and other viewable options for informing the user that he is busy and informs the travel status later. It is important to note that the above message is simply a type of invitation message that includes time information (how many minutes to arrive) and is not information about the place and the participant, and the latter two pieces of information have been predetermined and all participants in the appointment Is well known to. After that, the opponent will receive a popup or message and act accordingly. According to this embodiment, the application must be configured with a configuration that enables the user to prevent such configuration from being written, and therefore the user does not need to answer any other person's request near the appointment time without receiving any reminder. On the other hand, a reminder or message can be auto-responded to inform that it is normally received and the user is busy and will later notify the itinerary status. In this way, it helps the user to handle the related appointments more conveniently.

These days, appointments or meetings involve people from other regions / countries, and promised participants must travel on different time zones. Handling an invitation beyond the other time zone can cause confusion because the parties receiving the invite message receive the local appointment time of the sender, which causes confusion among the participants.

According to another embodiment, the invitation method comprises the steps of acquiring location information, such as local information and / or time zone information, of the invitee and at least one invitee; And adjusting the time information of the appointment based on the location information while exchanging messages and responses, thereby reducing and avoiding the confusion caused by the above invitation method. For example, the inviter sent an invitation to a guest in London from Hong Kong on Friday 9pm. After an automatic time change by the associated module or means provided by the present invention, the invitee receives an adjusted appointment time, such as 1pm London Time Friday. Location information, such as location and / or time zone location information, may be entered by a user or from a device or mobile phone on which the inviting application or system of the present invention is installed and / or based on BeiDou / COMPASS, Galileo, GLONASS, Is obtained from the optional internal and external location module. Preferably, the time zone difference is automatically adjusted or compensated during the exchange of messages or responses for an appointment. In addition, the time information may be a color code to indicate whether the time is the original time or the converted time. For example, to avoid chaos of participants, the original and untransformed time may be black and the converted time red or other color. Similarly, this configuration and other configurations described herein, such as a time adjustment configuration, may be enabled or disabled in a predetermined or preconfigured manner.

Setting appointments between multiple parties can be difficult, especially when the parties are unaware of each other. It is also possible, technically, to enable a user to act as a bridge to work together and / or as an intermediary to set up appointments among other parties without revealing or disclosing anything personal and / or confidential of each of the targeted participants It is desirable to have a solution, because it can certainly reduce the complexity of making invitations to parties that are definitely and very non-academic and have never met before the appointment. For example, if the first party and the second party only know the third party, and the third party can help the first and second parties to establish an appointment without exposing or exchanging their phone numbers with each other If this third party also does not participate in the promise and wants to be provided information only for this event, this progressive invitation mechanism, which differs from the prior art, becomes necessary to realize the above objective.

In this regard, the preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a third party invitation mechanism based solely on the adoption of mobile phone contacts where the aliases of each of the targeted participants are simply used. This third party invitation mechanism employs a similar invitation procedure as set forth above in order to establish an appointment, but one other thing is that the participant information of the invitation message may be sent to the invitees' personal information It is only a pseudonym without an indication. After confirmation of the appointment, personal details, including real name, address, ID number, e-mail address, telephone number, or any combination thereof, may then be selectively disclosed to related invitees and / or final / actual invitees represented by each invitee .

According to embodiments of the present invention, the step of determining an appointment includes determining whether the appointment is accepted by the inviter and at least one invitee and / or at least partially by at least two invitees based on the at least one reply And the like. In a typical case, the proposed promise is determined after it has been agreed and accepted by one or more specific invitees predetermined by the inviter and at least one invitee, a certain number of invitees, or the inviter. It was the initial intention of the initiator who initiated and proposed the invitation. For example, an invitation is sent to a number of invitees, of which the response from other invitees is irrelevant to the invitee, and only one or two people may be the ones that are predetermined goals by the inviter. Also, not all invitees need to accept an invitation, and the inviter can determine and confirm the invitation as soon as the invitation is accepted by a certain number of invitees or by more than one person predetermined by the invitee. In the case of performing with a third party invitation mechanism, the appointment may be determined immediately upon mutual agreement and acceptance by at least two invitees.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, an appointment invitation system includes an invitation message, including time information, optional participant information, and / or optional location information, for messaging with an invitee and at least one invitee selected from the database, Means for sending through; Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; Means for determining an appointment or negotiating / re-arranging an appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined; Means for exchanging time information based on local and / or standard time location information of the inviter and at least one invitee during the exchange of messages and responses; Means for enabling appointment negotiation through the messaging module while preventing external direct communication between invitees during reordering appointments; And means for performing each of the configurations / steps of the promised invitation method as described above.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the above-described invitation method is performed by a program and a computer device, wherein the program is stored in a well-known storage medium or apparatus well known in the art. The program may be accessed, executed and transmitted over a network, while data and messages generated during execution are temporarily or permanently stored in volatile memory or nonvolatile memory of the computer device for later reference or further processing. According to a preferred embodiment, this embodiment provides a program recorded on a medium for causing a computer device to perform a process for inviting an appointment when executed by a computer device, the program comprising: Sending an invitation message through a messaging module for appointment with a person's invitee, the invitation message including time information, optional participant information, and / or optional location information; Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And negotiating / re-arranging an appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined; Exchanging time information based on local and / or standard time location information of the inviter and at least one invitee during the exchange of messages and responses; And enabling appointment negotiation through the messaging module while preventing external direct communication between invitees while rescheduling the appointment.

Preferably, the program includes various configurations, functions, and procedures for performing each of the configurations / steps of the appointment invitation method as described above.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that some configurations which are not particularly important to an understanding of the invention are not described and are not shown in the drawings, It will be possible.

In addition, it will be appreciated that the invitation method, system, and program as described in this application are not limited to the specific arrangements disclosed above, but that various changes and substitutions are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, the steps, elements and / or configurations of the various embodiments or illustrative embodiments for illustration or description may be combined with one another and / or within the scope of the present invention, .

100: invitation message sending step 200: one or more response receiving step
300: Steps to determine or re-arrange appointments

Claims

In the appointment invitation method,
Sending, via a messaging module, an invite message containing time information informing at least one invitee of the invitee of the target time and / or one or more predetermined alternate target times to make an appointment to the invitee;
Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And
Determining or negotiating / re-arranging an appointment based on at least a portion of one or more responses received from at least one invitee until an appointment is determined;
Wherein the invitation message further includes participant information and / or place information in an invitation message, such that the appointment determination is independent of anybody.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the original calendar system of the messaging module by inserting a determined appointment.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising exporting the determined appointment of the original calendar system to a conventional calendar system.

The method of claim 1, further comprising: obtaining location information of an invitee and at least one invitee; And adjusting the time information based on the location information while the message and the response are being transmitted.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: obtaining location and / or time zone location information of an invitee and at least one invitee; And
And adjusting the time information based on the region and / or time zone location information while the message and the response are being transmitted.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising: receiving region and / or time zone location information, including receiving zone and / or time zone location information manually provided by the invitee and at least one invitee; And / or automatically acquiring region and / or time zone location information by internal and external positioning modules based on BeiDou / Compass, Galileo, GLONASS, GPS, or a combination thereof.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein reordering the appointment comprises:
In response to a desired modification, until the appointment is accepted by the inviter and at least one invitee and / or at least two invitees, sending one or more modified invite messages and receiving one invite from at least one invitee And receiving the above response.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the participant information includes a pseudonym that does not reveal specific personal details of the inviter and at least one invitee in order to prevent direct communication between invitees.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the participant information includes a pseudonym that does not reveal specific personal details of each of at least two invitees to prevent external direct communication between invitees.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the specific personal details include a real name, an address, an ID number, an email address, a telephone number, or specific data that enables external direct communication between them.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the specific personal details include a real name, an address, an ID number, an email address, a telephone number, or specific data that enables external direct communication between them.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the means for determining an appointment comprises:
And determining whether the appointment has been accepted by the inviter and at least one invitee and / or at least two invitees based on at least a portion of the one or more responses.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: switching the invite message to an invite notification that includes basic information for an appointment and a link for acquiring a messaging module and sending it to the at least one invitee who failed to obtain the messaging module &Lt; / RTI >

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the messaging protocol is at least one SMS, MMS, or push notification for real-time communication.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation message includes an invitee and / or at least one invitee participating in the invitee's invitee meeting, wherein the promise is at least partially determined and the invitee and / Invitation method that includes more information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more target participants do not acquire any specific contact information enabling them to communicate directly with each other without knowing each other and / or prior to appointment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation message further comprises place information for announcing a target location for an appointment based on time information being automatically adjusted and displayed during transmission of a message and a response.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the time information comprises an invitation invitation method that is adjusted based at least in part on the determination of whether the invitee and / or at least one invitee are residing and / or located in a different time zone from the target location for appointment .

In an appointment invitation system,
Means for sending, via a messaging module, an invitation message including time information, optional participant information, and / or optional place (location) information for an appointment with the inviter and at least one invitee;
Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And
And means for negotiating / reconciling the appointment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined.

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS: 1. A program recorded on a medium for causing a computer device to perform a process for inviting an appointment when executed by the computer device, comprising:
Sending an invitation message through the messaging module for appointment with the inviter and at least one invitee, the invitation message including time information, optional participant information, and / or optional location information;
Receiving, via the messaging module, one or more responses indicating acknowledgment, acceptance, desired modification, or rejection of an appointment from at least one invitee; And
Determining a commitment based at least in part on one or more responses received from at least one invitee until the appointment is determined, or negotiating / re-arranging the appointment.