Method and system for supporting communications within a virtual team environment
First Claim
1. A distributed application for facilitating collaboration between geographically-dispersed members of a team, comprising:
- a collaboration services suite adapted to establish a communications session between two or more members of the team using one of a plurality of communications media in response to a request from any one of the team members using dynamic presence and availability information respecting each team member; and
a team member interface adapted display the dynamic presence and availability information to each member of the team, and to permit a team member to request initiation by the collaboration services suite of a communications session with at least one other team member.
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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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65 Claims
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1. A distributed application for facilitating collaboration between geographically-dispersed members of a team, comprising:
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a collaboration services suite adapted to establish a communications session between two or more members of the team using one of a plurality of communications media in response to a request from any one of the team members using dynamic presence and availability information respecting each team member; and
a team member interface adapted display the dynamic presence and availability information to each member of the team, and to permit a team member to request initiation by the collaboration services suite of a communications session with at least one other team member. - 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, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A distributed application for facilitating collaboration between geographically-dispersed members of a team, comprising:
a collaboration services suite adapted to establish a multi-media communications session between two or more members of the team in response to a request from any one of the team members using a data network to enable an exchange of video content between data terminals of team members involved in the multi-media communications session, and a switched telephone network to enable exchange of voice content between voice communications devices of the team members involved in the multi-media communications session. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65)
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