On-demand provisioning of a set of services to interconnect a group of participants

• US 20050080845A1
• Filed: 12/04/2004
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bhaskarpillai Gopinath
• Original Assignee: Bhaskarpillai Gopinath
• Inventors: Gopinath, Bhaskarpillai
• Application Number:
  US11/003,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20050080845A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/564 whereby the feature is a sub-conference
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/565 relating to time schedule aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems

Abstract

Techniques for enabling existing and new services and for configuring one or more of the services to instantiate an application which is readily accessible to a dynamically-formed group of interested participants at the appointed time for a desired duration are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for serving a first party and a second party with an interconnection server composed of:

an interconnection interface for establishing a comnmnunication connection between the parties; and

a memory subspace assigned to each of the parties, the method comprising

in response to a request to the server for a communication connection between the first party and the second party initiated by the first party, connecting the first party, at the first party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the first party for storing information, and

in response to the first party providing information to establish the communication connection with the second party, establishing the communication connection between the parties via the interconnection interface.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 which, prior to establishing, includes connecting the first party, at the first party'"'"'s option, to the corresponding subspace of the first party for retrieving information.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 which, prior to establishing, includes connecting the second party, at the second party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the second party for retrieving information whenever the first party is identified to the second party.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 which, prior to establishing, includes connecting the second party, at the second party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the second party for storing information whenever the first party is identified to the second party.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection but prior to disconnecting the first party from the interface server, maintaining the first party'"'"'s connection to the subspace of the first party for storing or retrieving information.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection but prior to disconnecting the second party from the interface server, maintaining the second party'"'"'s connection to the subspace of the second party for storing or retrieving information.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the first party from the interface server, re-connecting the first party to the interconnection server for storing or retrieving information from the subspace of the first party.

8. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the second party from the interface server, re-connecting the second party to the interconnection server for storing or retrieving information from the subspace of the second party.

9. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the first party from the interface server, re-connecting the first party to the subspace of the first party by accessing the interconnection server with a personal computer of the first party to store or retrieve information in digital format.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 further including, upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the second party from the interface server, re-connecting the second party to the subspace of the second party by accessing the interconnection server with a personal computer of the second party to store or retrieve information in digital format.

11. A method for serving a first party and a second party with an interconnection server composed of:

an interconnection interface for establishing a commnunication connection between the parties; and

a memory subspace assigned to each of the parties, the method comprising

in response to a request to the server for a communication connection between the first party and the second party initiated by the first party, connecting the first party to the subspace of the first party for storing or retrieving information,

in response to the first party providing information to establish the communication connection with the second party, connecting the second party, at the second party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the second party for storing or retrieving information whenever the first party is identified to the second party, and

establishing the communication connection between the parties via the interconnection interface.

12. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein either the first party provides, the second party provides, or both parties provide verbal information for storage in the subspace of the respective party, the method further comprising converting the verbal information to a pre-determined digital format for storage in the subspace of the respective party.

13. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein either the first party accesses, the second party accesses, or both parties access the stored digital information for retreival from the subspace of the respective party, the method further comprising converting the stored digital information to an verbal message directed to the respective party.

14. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein the interconnection interface includes a telephone interface to complete a telephone call, and the establishing includes establishing the commnication connection via the telephone interface.

15. A method for serving a first party and a second party via an Internet server composed of:

an interconnection interface for establishing a commnunication connection between the parties; and

a memory subspace assigned to each of the parties, the method comprising

in response to a request for a communication connection between the first party and the second party initiated by the first party over the Internet, connecting the first party, the first party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the first party for storing or retreiving information,

in response to the first party providing information over the Internet to establish the communication connection with the second party, connecting the second party, at the second party'"'"'s option, to the subspace of the second party for storing or retrieving information whenever the first party is identified to the second party, and

establishing the communication connection between the parties via the interconnection interface.

16. The method as recited in claim 15 wherein either the first party provides, the second party provides, or both parties provide verbal information for storage in the subspace of the respective party, the method further comprising converting the verbal information to a pre-determined digital format for storage in the subspace of the respective party.

17. The method as recited in claim 16 wherein either the first party accesses, the second party accesses, or both parties access the stored digital information for retreival from the subspace of the respective party, the method further comprising converting the stored digital information to an verbal message directed to the respective party.

18. The method as recited in claim 15 further including, upon terminating the communication connection but prior to disconnecting the first party from the interface server, maintaining the first party'"'"'s connection to the subspace of the first party for storing or retrieving information.

19. The method as recited in claim 15 further including, upon terminating the communication connection connection but prior to disconnecting the second party from the interface server, maintaining the second party'"'"'s connection to the subspace of the second party for storing or retrieving information.

20. The method as recited in claim 15 further including

upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the first party from the interface server, re-connecting the first party, at the first party'"'"'s option, to the interconnection server for storing or retrieving information from the subspace of the first party, and

upon terminating the communication connection and disconnecting the second party from the interface server, re-connecting the second party, at the second party'"'"'s option, to the interconnection server for storing or retrieving information from the subspace of the second party.