METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR RECORDING AND VIEWING A COLLABORATION SESSION

• US 20070288569A1
• Filed: 05/24/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yuan, Zheng, Knight, David, Deep, Rohit
• Granted Patent: US 7,945,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

In one embodiment, the systems and methods attend a collaboration session; detect content shared during the collaboration session; automatically record the content and a time stamp corresponding to the content; and play at least a portion of the content during the collaboration session.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

attending a collaboration session;

detecting content shared during the collaboration session;

automatically recording the content and a time stamp corresponding to the content; and

playing at least a portion of the content during the collaboration session.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein automatically recording occurs during the collaboration session.

3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising identifying a content type based on the content.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the content type is an audio transmission.

5. The method according to claim 3 wherein the content type is an graphical transmission.

6. The method according to claim 3 wherein the content type is a textual transmission.

7. The method according to claim 1 further comprising assigning the time stamp to the content based on a temporal characteristic of the content.

8. The method according to claim 1 further comprising capturing the content at a periodic time interval.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising pausing attendance within the collaboration session while playing the portion of the content.

10. The method according to claim 1 further comprising pausing playback of the portion of the content.

11. The method according to claim 10 further comprising rejoining the collaboration session after pausing the playback of the portion of the content.

12. A system, comprising:

a content detection module configured to detect content that is shared during a collaboration session;

a content recording module configured to record the content associated with the collaboration session and to play back a portion of the content during the collaboration session;

a content time stamp module configured to assign a time stamp to the content as the content is shared during the collaboration session; and

a storage module configured to store the content and the time stamp.

13. The system according to claim 12 further comprising a collaboration session detection module configured to detect the collaboration session.

14. The system according to claim 12 further comprising a text archive module configured to detect a text message from the content.

15. The system according to claim 14 wherein the text archive module is further configured to separate the text message into sub-messages.

16. The system according to claim 12 wherein the content detection module is configured to identify a content type based on the content.

17. The system according to claim 16 wherein the content type is an audio transmission.

18. The system according to claim 16 wherein the content type is an graphical transmission.

19. The system according to claim 16 wherein the content type is a textual transmission.

20. A system comprising:

means for attending a collaboration session;

means for detecting content shared during the collaboration session;

means for automatically recording the content and a time stamp corresponding to the content; and

means for playing at least a portion of the content during the collaboration session.

21. The system according to claim 20 wherein the means for playing includes streaming the portion of the content to a recipient.

22. The system according to claim 20 wherein the means for playing includes allowing a recipient to access the portion of the content.