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Participant profiling in a conferencing system

  • US 10,268,360 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2010
  • Issued: 04/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for profiling participants in an online conference, the method comprising:

  • a conferencing system establishing an audio conference having an associated online conference between a plurality of identified participants having a stored participant profile and an unidentified participant who joins the audio conference via an incoming call from an originating telephone number without joining the associated online conference;

    the conferencing system presenting a conference user interface to the plurality of identified participants, the conference user interface displaying a unique interactive participant object with an audio indicator for each of the identified participants and the unidentified participant, the audio indicator having a first visual display state identifying when the corresponding participant is not speaking during the audio conference and a second visual state identifying when the corresponding participant is speaking during the audio conference, the unique interactive participant objects corresponding to the identified participants displaying profile information from the associated stored participant profile, and the unique interactive participant object corresponding to the unidentified participant visually indicating that participant profile information is not available, each of the unique interactive participant objects comprising a participant profile control;

    in response to the audio indicator in the unique interactive participant object associated with the unidentified participant being switched from the first visual display state to the second visual display state while the unidentified participant is speaking during the audio conference, receiving a user selection from one of the identified participants of the corresponding participant profile control;

    in response to the user selection of the participant profile control displayed in the unique interactive participant object of the unidentified participant, the conference user interface prompting the selecting identified participant to enter one or more participant parameters for the unidentified participant, the one or more participant parameters specified via one of a search engine results page or a social networking system; and

    in response to receiving the one or more participant parameters for the unidentified participant;

    updating the conference user interface to display the one or more participant parameters via the unique interactive participant object associated with the previously unidentified participant; and

    the conferencing system generating and storing a new participant profile linking the one or more participants parameters to the originating telephone number.

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