Web-enabled chat conferences and meeting implementations
First Claim
1. An electronic web-implemented meeting system comprising:
- a computer server arrangement including at least one computer processor and communication circuitry configured for meeting-participant communications over the Web and including at least one database memory circuit configured for storing data concerning meeting participants, the computer server arrangement configured and arranged to;
provide a web-accessible virtual meeting interface, accessible to remote users, that presents a plurality of virtual meeting groups to which the remote users can subscribe as meeting participants; and
add at least one of the remote users, in response to a received selection of a particular virtual meeting group from the web-accessible virtual meeting interface by the at least one remote user, to a subscription list of the particular virtual meeting group according to the selection;
in response to a virtual meeting scheduled for the particular virtual meeting group;
identify a set of the remote users that are subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group indicated by the subscription list,establish data connections for the set of the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group by providing a chat interface for the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group, andmerge the established data connections for the set of the remote users for the virtual meeting.
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Abstract
Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a meeting system is implemented that includes a computer server arrangement with at least one processor. The computer server arrangement is configured to provide a web-based meeting-group subscription option to potential meeting participants. A meeting scheduling data is received over a web-accessible virtual meeting interface. The meeting scheduling data includes group identification information and meeting time information. In response to the group identification information, participant identification information is retrieved for participants that subscribe to a meeting group identified by the group identification information. Chat sessions are used by the meeting participants.
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1. An electronic web-implemented meeting system comprising:
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a computer server arrangement including at least one computer processor and communication circuitry configured for meeting-participant communications over the Web and including at least one database memory circuit configured for storing data concerning meeting participants, the computer server arrangement configured and arranged to; provide a web-accessible virtual meeting interface, accessible to remote users, that presents a plurality of virtual meeting groups to which the remote users can subscribe as meeting participants; and add at least one of the remote users, in response to a received selection of a particular virtual meeting group from the web-accessible virtual meeting interface by the at least one remote user, to a subscription list of the particular virtual meeting group according to the selection; in response to a virtual meeting scheduled for the particular virtual meeting group; identify a set of the remote users that are subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group indicated by the subscription list, establish data connections for the set of the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group by providing a chat interface for the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group, and merge the established data connections for the set of the remote users for the virtual meeting. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An electronic web-implemented meeting system comprising:
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a computer server arrangement including at least one computer processor and communication circuitry adapted as part of a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) telecommunications computer server and configured and arranged to provide VoIP telecommunications including chat sessions with text for meeting-participant communications over the Web, the computer server arrangement further including at least one database memory circuit configured for storing data concerning meeting participants and also configured and arranged to establish meetings among the meeting participants by provisioning different control profiles for chat-meeting control, the computer server arrangement configured and arranged to; provide a web-accessible virtual meeting interface, accessible to remote users, that presents a plurality of virtual meeting groups to which the remote users can subscribe as meeting participants; and add at least one of the remote users, in response to a received selection of a particular virtual meeting group from the web-accessible virtual meeting interface by the at least one remote user, to a subscription list of the particular virtual meeting group according to the selection; in response to a virtual meeting scheduled for the particular virtual meeting group; identify a set of the remote users that are subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group indicated by the subscription list, establish data connections for the set of the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group by providing a chat interface for the remote users subscribed to the particular virtual meeting group, and merge the established data connections for the set of the remote users for the virtual meeting.
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