Method of team member profile selection within a virtual team environment
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1. A team member profile maintained by a persistent collaboration services suite for facilitating collaboration between members of a team, the team member profile comprising communications information defining preferences of a respective team member for participating in each one of a plurality of different types of communications.
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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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- 1. A team member profile maintained by a persistent collaboration services suite for facilitating collaboration between members of a team, the team member profile comprising communications information defining preferences of a respective team member for participating in each one of a plurality of different types of communications.
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18. A method for enabling a team member to select a respective team member profile, the team member profile being maintained by a persistent collaboration services suite for facilitating collaboration between members of a team, the method comprising the step of:
enabling the team member to interact with the persistent collaboration services suite to select communications information defining preferences of a respective team member for participating in each one of a plurality of different types of communications.
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