FULL COLLABORATION BREAKOUT ROOMS FOR CONFERENCING
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented process for creating sub-meetings from a scheduled meeting conducted over a computer network comprising the process actions of:
- scheduling a meeting on the network;
meeting participants registering for the scheduled meeting over the network;
meeting participants joining the scheduled meeting over the network;
conducting the scheduled meeting over the network;
transitioning to sub-meetings of the scheduled meeting comprising sub-sets of the meeting participants with automatic provisioning of audio for the sub-meetings;
conducting the sub-meetings with the sub-sets of meeting participants;
transitioning from the sub-meetings back to the scheduled meeting with automatic provisioning of audio for the main meeting.
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Abstract
The present breakout room technique provides breakout rooms, or smaller sub-sets of a larger meeting, with full collaboration capabilities in live web-based conferencing applications. It provides for the capability to easily create sub-meetings or breakout rooms and the ability to assign individuals to breakout rooms. It provides a seamless experience in joining into breakout rooms with audio provisioning. The present breakout room technique also seamlessly brings back breakout room attendees to the main room with audio provisioning. Furthermore, it provides the ability for the instructor to roam between rooms, the ability to assign content to breakout rooms, and the ability to review content from breakout rooms in the main room.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented process for creating sub-meetings from a scheduled meeting conducted over a computer network comprising the process actions of:
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scheduling a meeting on the network; meeting participants registering for the scheduled meeting over the network; meeting participants joining the scheduled meeting over the network; conducting the scheduled meeting over the network; transitioning to sub-meetings of the scheduled meeting comprising sub-sets of the meeting participants with automatic provisioning of audio for the sub-meetings; conducting the sub-meetings with the sub-sets of meeting participants; transitioning from the sub-meetings back to the scheduled meeting with automatic provisioning of audio for the main meeting. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for conducting an electronic learning meeting over a computer network, comprising:
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a meeting server that controls an electronic learning meeting over the network; one or more electronic learning meeting attendee clients that receive and transmit meeting data over the network, wherein each of said meeting attendee clients has a sub-module to allow said client to break into a sub-meeting of the electronic learning meeting, and wherein at least one meeting attendee client is the leader of the electronic learning meeting. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer-implemented process for creating sub-meetings from a main meeting comprising:
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attendees joining a conference conducted over a network employing audio, video and meeting content; and transitioning subsets of said attendees to one or more sub-conferences (416) wherein each of the sub-conference comprises a subset of the audio, video and meeting content. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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