Method and system for providing electronic pickup meetings

A method and system for providing real time collaboration sessions among computer users. When a scheduling user selects a group of people for a real-time collaboration session, and some of the desired participants are not currently available, interface options are simultaneously provided that enable the user to either start the collaboration session with the currently available participants, or to invite all participants to join a session at future time determined to be the next time at which all desired users are available. The option of sending the electronic invitation may be provided to and accessed simultaneously with the display of the collaboration session interface, while the real-time collaboration session is underway. An invitation to immediately join a current real time collaboration session may further simultaneously provide the receiver with the options of either joining the session, or of responding by generating an electronic invitation to a future session. Such options may be provided through- any specific type of selectable user interface display objects.