METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR REPORTING BASED ON ATTENTION OF A USER DURING A COLLABORATION SESSION

• US 20110196930A1
• Filed: 04/20/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Knight, David, Kumar, Manish, Chawla, Jitendra, Wong, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/090,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20110196930A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• 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

Abstract

In one embodiment, a collaboration session is conducted between a plurality of participant devices. The content shared during the collaboration session is recorded. The recorded content indicates content that was shared at various times during the collaboration session. An activity status of at least some participant devices is recorded at various times during the collaboration session. The activity status of the at least some participant devices is correlated with the content that was being shared at each of a plurality of times during the collaboration session. For a selected time of the plurality of times during the collaboration session, the content that was being shared in the collaboration session at the selected time and an indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time is displayed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

conducting a collaboration session between a plurality of participant devices, at least one participant device operating as a presenter device that shares content during the collaboration session, and at least one participant device operating as an attendee device that receives and displays the content shared during the collaboration session;

recording the content shared during the collaboration session, the recorded content indicating content that was shared at various times during the collaboration session;

recording an activity status of at least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session;

correlating the recorded activity status of the at least some participant devices with the content that was being shared, at each of a plurality of times during the collaboration session; and

displaying, on an electronic device, for a selected time of the plurality of times during the collaboration session, the content that was being shared in the collaboration session at the selected time and an indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the activity status indicates whether the participant device is considered active or inactive in the collaboration session.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time is a graphic indication of a percentage of the at least some participant devices that are considered active in the collaboration session at the selected time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices is a graph indicating a percentage of the at least some participant devices that are considered active in the collaboration session, with a marker in the graph indicating the selected time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying further comprises:

displaying a timing diagram showing a duration of the collaboration session, the timing diagram including a marker indicating the selected time.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices includes one or more pictorial representations of participant devices, each pictorial representation indicating whether a corresponding participant device is considered active, or indicating whether a corresponding participant device is considered inactive, at the selected time.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a manner in which the content is displayed on the at least some participant devices during the collaboration; and

determining the activity status of each participant device of the at least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session based on the manner in which the content is displayed on the participant device at the times.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting interface input on the at least some participant devices during the collaboration session; and

determining the activity status of each participant device of the at least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session based on any interface input detected on the participant device at the times.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a manner in which the content is displayed on the at least some participant devices during the collaboration session;

detecting interface input on the at least some participant devices during the collaboration session; and

determining the activity status of each participant device of the at least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session based both on the manner in which the content is displayed on the participant device at the times and any interface input detected on the participant device at the times.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a level of participation of each of the least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session; and

determining whether each of the at least some participant devices is active or inactive in the collaboration session at the various times based on whether the participant device'"'"'s level of participation exceeds a threshold.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording the content shared during the collaboration session comprises periodically recording corresponding time stamps in association with recorded content, and the recording an activity status comprises recording corresponding time stamps in association with the activity status, and the correlating comprises matching time stamps corresponding to the activity status with time stamps corresponding to the recorded content.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic device is the presenter device.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store instructions for execution on the processor, the instructions including instructions that when executed are operable to

record content shared during a collaboration session among a plurality of participant devices, the recorded content to provide a record of what content was shared at what times during the collaboration session,

record an activity status of at least some participant devices at a number of times during a collaboration session, the recorded activity status to provide a record of what participant devices are considered active at what times during the collaboration session,

correlate the recorded activity status of the at least some participant devices with the content that was shared, at each of a plurality of times during the collaboration session, and

display, for a selected time of the plurality of times, the content that was shared in the collaboration session at the selected time and an indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time is a graphic indication of a percentage of the at least some participant devices that are considered active in the collaboration session at the selected time.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices is a graph indicating a percentage of the at least some participant devices that are considered active in the collaboration session, with a marker in the graph indicating the selected time.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the instructions further include instructions that when executed are operable to display a timing diagram showing a duration of the collaboration session, the timing diagram including a marker indicating the selected time.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices includes one or more pictorial representations of participant devices, each pictorial representation indicating whether a corresponding participant device is considered active, or indicating whether a corresponding participant device is considered inactive, at the selected time.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the instructions further include instructions that when executed are operable to determine a level of participation of each of the least some participant devices during the collaboration session, and determine whether each of the at least some participant devices is active or inactive in the collaboration session based on whether the participant device'"'"'s level of participation exceeds a threshold.

19. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the instructions that when executed are operable to record content shared during the collaboration session comprise instructions that when executed are operable to periodically record corresponding time stamps in association with recorded content, and the instructions that when executed are operable to record an activity status comprise instructions that when executed are operable to record corresponding time stamps in association with the activity status, and the instructions that when executed are operable to correlate comprise instructions that when executed are operable to match time stamps corresponding to the activity status with time stamps corresponding to the recorded content.

20. An apparatus, comprising:

means for conducting a collaboration session between a plurality of participant devices, at least one participant device operating as a presenter device that shares content during the collaboration session, and at least one participant device operating as an attendee device that receives and displays the content shared during the collaboration session;

means for recording the content shared during the collaboration session, the recorded content indicating content that was shared at various times during the collaboration session;

means for recording an activity status of at least some participant devices at various times during the collaboration session;

means for correlating the recorded activity status of the at least some participant devices with the content that was being shared, at each of a plurality of times during the collaboration session; and

means for displaying for a selected time of the plurality of times during the collaboration session, the content that was being shared in the collaboration session at the selected time and an indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time.