Techniques for Providing Presentation Material in an On-Going Virtual Meeting

• US 20090271479A1
• Filed: 04/23/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Activision Publishing Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Reisinger, Josef
• Granted Patent: US 8,028,021 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/36 Memories
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/563 User guidance or feature selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems

Abstract

A technique for providing presentation material in an on-going virtual meeting includes converting a real-world (RW) presentation into a virtual-world (VW) presentation. A media format of the VW presentation corresponds to a media format utilized by a target VW. The VW presentation is then stored in an RW media repository. The VW presentation is associated with an RW media uniform resource locator (URL). A VW screen control script is used to set a VW media URL associated with a VW screen parcel to the RW media URL. The VW presentation is then provided to participants of the VW meeting by accessing the RW media repository using the VW media URL.

Claims

1. A method of providing presentation material in an on-going virtual meeting, comprising:

converting a real-world presentation into a virtual-world presentation, wherein a media format of the virtual-world presentation corresponds to a media format utilized by a target virtual-world;

storing the virtual-world presentation in a real-world media repository, wherein the virtual-world presentation is associated with a real-world media uniform resource locator;

setting, using a virtual-world screen control script, a virtual-world media uniform resource locator associated with a virtual-world screen parcel to the real-world media uniform resource locator; and

providing, to participants of the virtual-world meeting, the virtual-world presentation by accessing the real-world media repository using the virtual-world media uniform resource locator.