Method and system for creating a virtual team environment
First Claim
1. A system for facilitating collaboration between members of a geographically-dispersed team, comprising:
- a collaboration services suite adapted to enable a communications session between at least two of the team members using a plurality of different communications media; and
a graphical user interface adapted to enable a team member to view communications icons representing dynamically maintained presence and availability information respecting different communications devices associated with respective members of the team, and to initiate a request for a communications session with another member of the team by selecting a one of the communications icons associated with the other member of the team.
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Abstract
A collaboration services suite is adapted to support a plurality of integrated telecommunications services accessed by geographically dispersed team members using a virtual team environment (VTE) client that generates a graphical user interface (GUI) for each of the respective team members. Communications sessions are automatically set up by the collaboration services suite in response to request messages generated by the VTE client when a team member initiates a communications session request using the GUI. Team members require no knowledge of another team member'"'"'s communications device address in order to initiate a communications session. The collaboration services suite includes a VTE server that communicates with the VTE clients, a presence engine that collects and maintains a status of communications devices specified in a current profile of the team member; and, a call server for handling setup and control of a voice component of each communications session completed.
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50 Claims
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1. A system for facilitating collaboration between members of a geographically-dispersed team, comprising:
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a collaboration services suite adapted to enable a communications session between at least two of the team members using a plurality of different communications media; and
a graphical user interface adapted to enable a team member to view communications icons representing dynamically maintained presence and availability information respecting different communications devices associated with respective members of the team, and to initiate a request for a communications session with another member of the team by selecting a one of the communications icons associated with the other member of the team. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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38. A method of facilitating collaboration between members of a geographically-dispersed team, comprising steps of:
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enabling team members to initiate a communications session between at least one other team member using at least one of a plurality of different communications media; and
providing a graphical user interface adapted to enable a team member to view communications icons representing dynamically maintained presence and availability information respecting different communications devices associated with respective members of the team, and to initiate a request for a communications session with another member of the team by selecting a one of the communications icons associated with the other member of the team.
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