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Approach for sharing electronic documents during electronic meetings

  • US 10,484,452 B2
  • Filed: 06/22/2015
  • Issued: 11/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A first apparatus for providing an improvement in the sharing of electronic documents between network devices during electronic meetings, the first apparatus comprising:

  • one or more processors;

    one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;

    a display;

    a collaboration client executing on the first apparatus and configured to;

    support an electronic meeting via one or more computer networks with a second apparatus that is external to and different from the first apparatus, wherein the second apparatus corresponds to a presenter participant of the electronic meeting, andgenerate and display, on the display of the first apparatus, a graphical user interface that includes;

    a first set of one or more graphical user interface controls that allow a user of the first apparatus to request a particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting; and

    an attendee list that;

    lists a plurality of participants of the electronic meeting that includes at least the presenter participant and at least one non-presenting participant, andspecifies for each participant, from the plurality of participants of the electronic meeting, whether the participant has requested the particular electronic document from the presenter participant; and

    a file sharing application executing on the first apparatus and configured to;

    in response to a user selection of the first set of one or more graphical user interface controls that allow a user of the first apparatus to request a particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting;

    determine, based upon file sharing data stored in the one or more memories of the first apparatus, that the presenter participant is the presenter of the particular electronic document, andgenerate and transmit to the second apparatus via the one or more computer networks, a request for the particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting,wherein at the second apparatus, in response to receiving the request for the particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting, a collaboration client executing on the second apparatus causes to be displayed on a display of the second apparatus, a plurality of graphical user interface controls that include a control to allow the presenter participant to deny the request and two or more controls to allow the presenter participant to accept the request, wherein each control, from the two or more controls to allow the presenter participant to accept the request, corresponds to a different security restriction level,at the second apparatus, the presenter participant selects a particular control for accepting the request and the particular control corresponds to a particular restriction level,receive, from the second apparatus via the one or more computer networks, a response to the request for the particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting, wherein the response to the request for the particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting includes the particular electronic document and was generated in response to the presenter participant approving the request for the particular electronic document currently being displayed during the electronic meeting, andcause the particular electronic document to be presented to the user of the first apparatus subject to the particular security restriction level that corresponds to the control selected by the presenter participant.

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