Trust conferencing apparatus and methods in digital communication

• US 10,289,817 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2015
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Incorporated (Genesys Cloud Services Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Incorporated (Genesys Cloud Services Incorporated)
• Inventors: Ristock, Herbert Willi Artur, Galvin, Brian, Perlmutter, S. Michael, Ryabchun, Andriy Vladimirovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Tae K
• Application Number:
  US14/859,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/306 Route determination based on the nature of the carried application
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/64 using an overlay routing layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/321 involving a third party or a trusted authority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]

Abstract

A conferencing application executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium, the computerized appliance coupled to one or more networks is provided, the application including functionality for responding to requests to join a conference, and for enabling requesters as participants, functionality for receiving and rendering text, voice or video data from each registered participant as text, voice or video data to be transmitted to individual ones of other participants, functionality for controlling which received text, voice or video data is transmitted to which participants, and functionality for receiving and executing instructions from a trust authority.

Claims

1. A conferencing system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

identify a conference having as invited participants, first, second, and third participants, the conference invoking electronic communication;

identify a trust score indicative of trustworthiness of the first participant;

identify a rule for controlling communication of the first participant during the conference;

electronically block the first participant from joining the conference based on the retrieved rule and the trust score

dynamically adjust the trust score during the conference;

enable the first participant to join the conference based on the retrieved rule and the dynamically adjusted trust score;

receive a data file shared by the second participant;

retrieve an electronic trust certificate associated with the data file;

compare the electronic trust certificate to the dynamically adjusted trust score; and

block access to the file during the conference by the first participant based on the comparing.

2. The conferencing system of claim 1, wherein the conference is a telephony conference.

3. The conferencing system of claim 2, wherein the conference is over a wide area network.

4. The conferencing system of claim 1, wherein the rule is selected by one of the first, second, or third participants.

5. The conferencing system of claim 1, wherein the processor bridges the conference between the first, second, and third participants.

6. The conferencing system of claim 1, wherein the instructions that cause the processor to dynamically adjust the trust score include instructions that cause the processor to receive a request from the second participant to adjust the trust score.

7. A conferencing method comprising:

identifying, by a processor, a conference call having as invited participants, first, second, and third participants, the conference call invoking electronic communication;

identifying, by the processor, a trust score indicative of trustworthiness of the first participant;

identifying, by the processor, a rule for controlling communication of the first participant during the conference call;

electronically block, by the processor, the first participant from joining the conference call based on the retrieved rule and the trust score;

dynamically adjusting, by the processor, the trust score during the conference;

enabling, by the processor, communication between the first and second participants based on the retrieved rule and the dynamically adjusted trust score;

receiving a data file shared by the second participant;

retrieving an electronic trust certificate associated with the data file;

comparing the electronic trust certificate to the dynamically adjusted trust score; and

blocking access to the file during the conference by the first participant based on the comparing.

8. The conferencing method of claim 7, wherein the conference is a telephony conference.

9. The conferencing method of claim 8, wherein the conference is over a wide area network.

10. The conferencing method of claim 7, wherein the rule is selected by one of the first, second, or third participants.

11. The conferencing method of claim 7, wherein the processor bridges the conference between the first, second, and third participants.

12. The conferencing method of claim 7, wherein the dynamically adjusting of the trust score includes receiving, by the processor, a request from the second participant to adjust the trust score.