Method for dynamically initiated interactive group communications

• US 20060080224A1
• Filed: 09/15/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Martin, Miquel, Winkler, Florian, Schuelke, Anett, Riu, Arabella, Akkawi, Amjad, Kuhnen, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US11/226,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20060080224A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A method for dynamically initiated interactive group communication between several participants concerning a process offered by an organizer includes: definition and conditioning of the process according to parameters that can freely be defined by the organizer, selection of the resource(s) to display the process, definition of target persons or groups and call by the organizer for participation/registration, registration by interested persons, acceptance of the registration and definition of group of participants according to criteria which can be pre-set by the organizer, start of the interactive communication depending on the organizer, on one or more participants or on an event, specification of a process content, enforcement of the interactive communication with regard to the communication rules and completion of the communication when reaching a result which is defined or can be defined or influenced by the organizer or by one or more participants in the course of the communication.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically initiated interactive group communication between several participants regarding a process offered by an organizer, comprising:

definition and conditioning of the process according to parameters that can freely be defined by the organizer;

selection of the resource or the resources to display the process;

definition of target persons or target groups and call by the organizer for participation/registration;

registration by interested persons;

acceptance of the registration and definition of group of participants according to criteria which can be pre-set by the organizer;

start of the interactive communication depending on the organizer, on one or more participants or on an event;

specification of a process content;

enforcement of the interactive communication with regard to the communication rules that can be pre-set and—

if applicable—

influenced by the organizer; and

completion of the communication when reaching a result which is defined or which can be defined or influenced by the organizer or by one or more participants in the course of the communication.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

a preparation phase preparing the interactive communication; and

a communicative operation phase which can preferably be initiated in a dynamic way.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the transition between the two phases can be pre-set or influenced by the organizer or by one or more participants.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the transition between the two phases can be influenced according to a situation or a context, i.e. depending on external conditions.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the participants can be selected according to pre-definable selection criteria and/or according to access resources that are available to and selected by the registering persons.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process and thus the process parameters can be influenced during the preparation phase.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein during the operation phase, the course of this phase can be influenced by the organizer as well as by the participants.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the participants can retrieve information about the process, preferably status information.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the participants can retrieve context information, process-related information and/or information about other participants.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the participants can participate in the preparation and/or operation phase via mobile terminals.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the organizer can pre-set a concrete medium or a selection of media for participation.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access resource can freely be chosen by the participants and that an automatic translation between different media takes place.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process is an auction.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the preparation phase is the pre-bidding phase to prepare bidding, and that the operation phase is the bidding phase.