Directing An Attendee Of A Collaboration Event To An Endpoint

• US 20110173263A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Brewster, Jon A., O'Hara, Kenton, Beers, Ted, Mandigo, Lonnie D., Mitchell, April S., Gorzynski, Mark E.
• Application Number:
  US13/119,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• 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 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• 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 21/643 Communication protocols network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP], H04L65/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

An event management system is configured to receive information that indicates a presence of an attendee of a collaboration event at a first location that is not specified by a registered event specification corresponding to the collaboration event and provide information to the attendee to direct the attendee to a second location with an endpoint for connecting to the collaboration event.

Claims

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

receiving first information that indicates a presence of a first attendee of a collaboration event at a first location that is not specified by a registered event specification corresponding to the collaboration event; and

providing second information to the first attendee to direct the first it) attendee to a second location with an endpoint for connecting to the collaboration event.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

adjusting the registered event specification to specify the second location.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first location differs from the second location.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting the second location based on the first information.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an indication of the second location in the first information from the first attendee.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

causing a set of media streams of the collaboration event to be provided to and received from the first attendee at the endpoint.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first information identifies the attendee.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first information identifies the collaboration event.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing third information to a second attendee of the collaboration event to direct the second attendee to the second location.

10. A program product comprising:

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

receive first information that indicates a first presence of a first attendee of a collaboration event at a first location that differs from a first specified location for the first attendee in a registered event specification corresponding to the collaboration event; and

providing second information to the first attendee to direct the first attendee to a second location with a first endpoint for connecting to the collaboration event;

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:

receive third information that indicates a second presence of a second attendee of the collaboration event at a third location that differs from a second specified location for the second attendee in the registered event specification; and

providing fourth information to the second attendee to direct the second attendee to a third location with a second endpoint for connecting to the collaboration event.

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

adjust the registered event specification to specify the second location.

13. The program product of claim 10 wherein the first location differs from the second location.

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

cause a set of media streams of the collaboration event to be provided to and received from the first attendee at the first endpoint.

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

provide third information to a second attendee of the collaboration event to direct the second attendee to the second location.

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 registered event specification of a collaboration event that is configured to include at least first and second event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to a set of attendees;

wherein the event management system is configured to detect a presence of a first one of the set of attendees at a first location that is remotely located from each of the first and the second event endpoints using the network interface, and wherein the event management system is configured to provide first information that directs the first one of the set of attendees to a second location with a third event endpoint using the network interface in response to detecting the presence.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the event management system is configured to add the third event endpoint to the registered event specification.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the registered event specification includes the third event endpoint prior to detecting the presence.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the event management system includes event information that indicates that the second location is near the first location.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the event management system includes at least one of a registered event specification and dynamic event context information that indicates that the third event endpoint is available for use by the collaboration event.