Event Management System For Creating A Second Event

• US 20110179157A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 07/21/2011
• 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: Beers, Ted, Derocher, Michael D., Mandigo, Lonnie D., Mitchell, April S., Brewster, Jon A., Gorzynski, Mark E., O'hara, Kenton
• Application Number:
  US13/120,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179157A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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: 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 host a first event that includes a first set of event endpoints that provides first and second sets of media streams to respective first and second sets of attendees during the first event. The event management system is configured to, while hosting the first event, create a second event that includes a second set of event endpoints that provide a third set of media streams to at least one of the first set of attendees and a fourth set of media streams during the second event. At least one of the second set of event endpoints is sufficiently separated from each of the first set of event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event.

Claims

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

hosting a first event that includes a first set of event endpoints that provides first and second sets of media streams to respective first and second sets of attendees during the first event; and

while hosting the first event, creating a second event that includes a it) second set of event endpoints that provide a third set of media streams to at least one of the first set of attendees and a fourth set of media streams during the second event;

wherein a first one of the second set of event endpoints is sufficiently separated from each of the first set of event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein a second one of the second set of event endpoints is sufficiently separated from each of the first set of event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

creating the first event to include a second one of the second set of event endpoints prior to the second event being created; and

moving the second one of the second set of event endpoints to the second event subsequent to creating the second event.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

rejoining the second one of the second set of event endpoints into the first event subsequent to the second event ending.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

joining the first one of the second set of event endpoints into the first event subsequent to the second event ending.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first one of the second set of event endpoints is outside of a room that includes one of the first set of event endpoints.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

creating the second event in response to a request from the one of the first set of attendees.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request to create the second event from one of the first set of event endpoints located near the first one of the second set of event endpoints.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request to create the second event from the first one of the second set of event endpoints.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the second set of event endpoints that provide the third set of media streams to the at least one of the first set of attendees and the fourth set of media streams to at least one of the second set of attendees during the second event.

11. A system comprising:

a network interface configured to connect to a network; and

an event management system coupled to the network interface;

wherein the event management system is configured to cause first and second event endpoints to provide respective first and second sets of media streams to respective first and second sets of attendees during a first event using the network interface, wherein the event management system is configured to receive a request to create a second event that includes at least a third event endpoint that is sufficiently separated from each of the first and the second event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event when providing a third set of media streams to a first subset of the first set of attendees, wherein the event management system is configured to provide an option to join the second event to at least the first and the second sets of attendees during the first event, and wherein the event management system is configured to maintain an association between the first event and the second event.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the event management system is configured to cause the second event endpoint to join the second event.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the event management system is configured to cause the second event endpoint to rejoin the first event using the association.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the event management system is configured to cause a fourth event endpoint to join the second event.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the event management system is configured to cause the fourth event endpoint to join the first event using the association in response to the second event ending.

16. A program product comprising:

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

receive, during a first event that includes a first set of event endpoints providing first and second sets of media streams to respective first and second sets of attendees, a request to create a second event; and

during the first event, create the second event in response to receiving the request to include a second set of event endpoints that provide a third set of media streams to at least one of the first set of attendees and a fourth set of media streams to at least one of the second set of attendees during the second event, wherein a first one of the second set of event endpoints is sufficiently separated from each of the first set of event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event;

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

17. The program product of claim 16 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

receive the request from one of the first set of event endpoints.

18. The program product of claim 16 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

receive the request from the first one of the second set of event endpoints.

19. The program product of claim 16 wherein the program is executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

reconfigure the first event to continue without at least one of the second set of event endpoints during the second event.

20. The program product of claim 16 wherein a second one of the second set of event endpoints is sufficiently separated from each of the first set of event endpoints so that the second event does not substantially interfere with the first event.