Providing an Interactive Presentation Environment

• US 20080276174A1
• Filed: 05/28/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hintermeister, Gregory Richard, Rahn, Michael D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,745,497 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/720
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4852 for modifying audio parameters, e.g. switching between mono and stereo
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

An interactive presentation environment for eMeetings or the like that provides participants with more control over what they see and hear. One embodiment of the interactive presentation environment comprises a meeting recorder adapted to create a recording of a live meeting and a navigation control for selecting a portion of the recording to view during the live meeting. Some embodiment may further comprise a timeline control containing a first graphical indicator associated with a live position and a second graphical indicator associated with a current position, a bookmark control adapted to mark a portion of the recording for archiving, and a display operatively connected to the meeting recorder and the navigation control.

Claims

1. An interactive presentation environment, comprising:

a meeting recorder adapted to create a recording of a live meeting, said live meeting having at least an audio content and a visual content, said visual content comprising a plurality of images which change during said live meeting, each of said plurality of images of said visual content being recorded by said meeting recorder at a respective time of presentation during said live meeting;

an interactive display for displaying said visual content of said live meeting; and

a navigation control coupled to said interactive display for interactively selecting, for presentation to a user on said interactive display during the live meeting, content of said live meeting from among a plurality of selections supported by said navigation control, said plurality of selections including;

(a) a currently presented portion of said live meeting including a currently presented image; and

(b) any arbitrary portion of said live meeting previously recorded by said meeting recorder, said portion including a previously recorded image different from said currently presented image

wherein, responsive to said user selecting (a) with said navigation control, said currently presented portion of said live meeting is presented to said user on said interactive display during said live meeting; and

wherein, responsive to said user selecting (b) with said navigation control, the previously recorded image which the user selects with said navigation control is presented to said user on said interactive display during said live meeting.

2. The interactive presentation environment of claim 1, further comprising:

a timeline control containing a first graphical indicator associated with a live position and a second graphical indicator associated with a current position

3. The interactive presentation environment of claim 2, further comprising a bookmark control adapted to mark a portion of the recording for archiving.

4. The interactive presentation environment of claim 1, further comprising a relative volume control adapted for adjusting a relative volumes of the live meeting and the recorded meeting.

5. The interactive presentation environment of claim 1, wherein the meeting recorder comprises a general purpose computing device.

6. A computer program product, comprising:

(a) a program configured to perform a method of presenting an electronic meeting, comprising;

receiving a live meeting signal of said electronic meeting, said live meeting signal having at least an audio content;

recording the live meeting signal during said electronic meeting; and

presenting a navigation control to a user during said electronic meeting that allows a user to select a previously recorded portion of the recorded live meeting signal, the selection being made by said user during said live meeting using said navigation control, for audio presentation to said user during the live meeting simultaneously with audio presentation to said user of audio content of a currently received live meeting signal of said electronic meeting; and

(b) a tangible computer-readable storage media bearing the program

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the program comprises an application server.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the tangible computer-readable media is chosen from the group consisting of:

information permanently stored on non-writable storage media; and

alterable information stored on writable storage media.