Conferencing system with linked chat

• US 20080066001A1
• Filed: 09/12/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Virutaldesign Net, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Virutaldesign Net, Inc.
• Inventors: Deboy, Scott, Majors, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US11/900,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20080066001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A conferencing system includes plurality of users each of which is interconnected with a conferencing server. The users each can simultaneously view the same video stream provided by the conferencing server. The users may simultaneously textually communicating among themselves while viewing the video stream to create a textual communication. The conferencing server associating at least two portions of the textual communication and the video stream with one another.

Claims

1. A conferencing system comprising:

(a) a plurality of users each of which is interconnected with a conferencing server;

(b) said plurality of users each of which can simultaneously view the same video stream provided by the conferencing server;

(c) said plurality of users simultaneously textually communicating among themselves while viewing said video stream to create a textual communication;

(d) said conferencing server associating at least two portions of said textual communication and said video stream with one another.

2. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said plurality of users each have a computer.

3. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said users are interconnected with said conferencing server though a network.

4. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said video stream further includes an audio stream.

5. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said textual communication is using a messaging system.

6. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said associating includes a frame of said video with a portion of said textual communication.

7. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said associating includes a segment of said video including a plurality of frames with a portion of said textual communication.

8. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said portion of said textual communication includes at least one line of said textual communication.

9. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein said associating includes two separate sets of associations.

10. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein one of said users may select a tag of said textual discussion to link to the associated part of said video.

11. The conferencing system of claim 1 wherein one of said users may select a tag of said video to link to the associated part of said textual discussion.