STATUS OF EVENTS

• US 20100091687A1
• Filed: 10/15/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Hara, Kenton, Beers, Ted, Hammerstad, Diane R., Derocher, Michael D., Mandigo, Lonnie D., Mitchell, April S., Brewster, Jon A., Gorzynski, Mark E.
• Application Number:
  US12/251,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20100091687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• 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

An event management system is configured to provide first status information corresponding to a scheduled event to at least a first person associated with an in progress event where the in progress event includes a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to a first set of attendees. The event management system is also configured to provide second status information corresponding to the in progress event to at least a second person associated with the scheduled event where the scheduled event is scheduled to include a second plurality of event endpoints that provide a second set of media streams to a second set of attendees.

Claims

1. A method performed by an event management system, the method comprising:

providing first status information corresponding to a scheduled event to at least a first person associated with an in progress event, the in progress event including a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to a first set of attendees; and

providing second status information corresponding to the in progress event to at least a second person associated with the scheduled event, the scheduled event being scheduled to include a second plurality of event endpoints that provide a second set of media streams to a second set of attendees.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing the first status information to at least one of the first set of attendees during the in progress event; and

providing the second status information to at least one of the second set of attendees prior to the scheduled event.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first plurality of event endpoints overlaps with at least one of the second plurality of event endpoints.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing the first status information to one of the first set of attendees in response to receiving attendee information from one of the second set of attendees.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

receiving the attendee information from an input/output device that is located outside of a room that includes a set of audio/video devices of one of the first plurality of event endpoints.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

associating the one of the second set of attendees with the scheduled event in response to receiving the attendee information; and

detecting an overlap between the scheduled event and the in progress event in response to associating the one of the second set of attendees with the scheduled event.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

associating the one of the second set of attendees with the scheduled event using a registered event specification corresponding to the scheduled event.

8. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

associating a location of the one of the second set of attendees with the scheduled event using event endpoint information.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing attendee information corresponding to the second set of attendees to one of the second set of attendees of the scheduled event.

10. A program product comprising:

a program executable by a processor for causing the processor to;

detect attendee information corresponding to a first set of attendees of a scheduled event, the scheduled event being scheduled to include a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to the first set of attendees; and

provide the attendee information to at least one of a second set of attendees of an in progress event, the in progress event including a second plurality of event endpoints that provide a second set of media streams to the second set of attendees;

a medium that stores the program so that the program is accessible by the processor.

11. The program product of claim 10 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

detect the attendee information in response to one of the first set of attendees checking in for the scheduled event.

12. The program product of claim 11 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

detect that the one of the first set of attendees has checked in from one of a hallway or a vestibule that is adjacent to a room that includes a set of audio/video devices of the one of the second plurality of event endpoints.

13. The program product of claim 10 wherein the attendee information provides an indication of how many of the first set of attendees have checked in for the scheduled event.

14. The program product of claim 10 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

provide status information corresponding to the in progress event to the first set of attendees.

15. The program product of claim 10 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

provide status information corresponding to the scheduled event to the first set of attendees.

16. A system comprising:

a network interface configured to connect to a network; and

an event management system coupled to the network interface, including a first registered event specification of a scheduled event that is scheduled to include a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of A/V media streams to a first set of attendees;

wherein the event management system is configured to detect a first presence of a first one of the first set of attendees at a first location that is outside of a room that includes a set of audio/video devices of one of the first plurality of event endpoints using the network interface, and wherein the event management system is configured to provide information that indicates a second presence of a second one of the first set of attendees at a second location to the first one of the first set of attendees at the first location using the network interface in response to detecting the first presence.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising:

the first plurality of event endpoints; and

a second plurality of event endpoints configured to provide a second set of A/V media streams to a second set of attendees during an in progress event.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the one of the first plurality of event endpoints overlaps with one of the second plurality of event endpoints.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the event management system includes a second registered event specification of the in progress event.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein the event management system includes dynamic event context information that indicates relative status of the scheduled and the in progress events.