Method and system for initiating communications with dispersed team members from within a virtual team environment using personal identifiers
First Claim
1. A method of initiating communications using a persistent virtual team environment instantiated by a collaboration services suite for facilitating collaboration between members of a team, the method comprising steps of:
- providing a graphical interface adapted to enable a person to interact with the virtual team environment to select each one of;
a personal identifier associated with a respective team member; and
one of a plurality of different types of communications; and
initiating the communications session using the selected personal identifier and type of the 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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21 Claims
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1. A method of initiating communications using a persistent virtual team environment instantiated by a collaboration services suite for facilitating collaboration between members of a team, the method comprising steps of:
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providing a graphical interface adapted to enable a person to interact with the virtual team environment to select each one of;
a personal identifier associated with a respective team member; and
one of a plurality of different types of communications; and
initiating the communications session using the selected personal identifier and type of the communications. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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