Apparatus and Method for Collaborative Network in an Enterprise Setting

• US 20130091469A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Roberts, Linda, Chang, E-Lee, Sung, Ja-Young, Schultz, Natasha Barrett, King, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 10,353,537 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• 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 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/155 involving storage of or access to video conference sessions tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to present an overlay combined with a presentation of media content at each of a plurality of computing devices on an electronic communications network to illustrate a collection of one or more commentaries temporally associated with portions of the presented media content where the portions of the presented media content comprises portions of a teleconference workflow meeting, to collect one or more commentaries from each of the plurality of computing devices, and to present the commentaries from the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing, by a system including a processor, an overlay with a presentation of media content at a computing device to illustrate user-generated comments regarding the media content; and

providing, by the system, the user-generated comments in the overlay, wherein an icon in the overlay indicates insertion of a comment in the overlay, wherein different icons respectively indicate types of comments comprising reminders, task assignments, agreed upon terms, and milestones, and wherein each of the icons is selectable to cause presentation at the computing device of a corresponding comment of the user-generated comments.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, by the system, a timeline in the overlay corresponding to the presentation of the media content, wherein a position of an icon along the timeline indicates insertion of a comment at a corresponding time during the presentation of the media content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the types of comments include a request for review.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the icon indicating the request for review further indicates a relative importance of the review.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the comment in the overlay includes a link to additional media content, and further comprising presenting, by the system, the additional media content via the link in accordance with a selection of the icon corresponding to the comment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the additional media content comprises a slide presentation.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is one of a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of users on a network, and further comprising:

collecting, by the system, the user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices during the presentation of the overlay with the media content; and

providing, by the system, in the overlay the user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, so that the collected comments are viewable by each of the users.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the media content comprises a portion of a teleconference attended by the users, and wherein a portion of the teleconference is live.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein a subset of the user-generated comments are collected from different computing devices of the plurality of computing devices during presentation of the overlay with the media content at the different computing devices at different times.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein a subset of the user-generated comments are collected from different computing devices of the plurality of computing devices during a synchronized presentation at the different computing devices of the overlay with the media content.

11. The method of claim 2, comprising modifying the timeline with attention data, wherein the attention data is representative of a user'"'"'s attention to the media content and is based on an analysis of images captured at the computing device during the presentation of the overlay with the media content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is one of a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of employees of an enterprise, wherein the user-generated comments are generated by the employees while participating in a teleconference, wherein the icons are associated with a segment of the media content that is to be reviewed, and wherein a time period for the segment is based on user input associated with each of the user-generated comments.

13. A system, comprising:

a memory to store computer instructions; and

a controller coupled with the memory, wherein the controller, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising;

providing an overlay with a presentation of media content at a computing device to illustrate user-generated comments regarding the media content; and

providing the user-generated comments in the overlay, wherein an icon in the overlay indicates insertion of a comment in the overlay, wherein different icons respectively indicate types of comments comprising reminders, task assignments, agreed upon terms, and milestones, and wherein each of the icons is selectable to cause presentation at the computing device of a corresponding comment of the user-generated comments.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise providing a timeline in the overlay corresponding to the presentation of the media content, wherein a position of an icon along the timeline indicates insertion of a comment at a corresponding time during the presentation of the media content.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the types of comments further comprise a request for review.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the icon indicating the request for review further indicates a relative importance of the review.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the comment includes a link to additional media content, and wherein the operations further comprise presenting the additional media content via the link, in accordance with selection of the icon corresponding to the comment.

18. A tangible computer-readable storage device, comprising computer instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

providing an overlay with a presentation of media content at a computing device to illustrate user-generated comments regarding the media content; and

providing the user-generated comments in the overlay, wherein an icon in the overlay indicates insertion of a comment in the overlay, wherein different icons respectively indicate types of comments comprising reminders, task assignments, agreed upon terms, and milestones, and wherein each of the icons is selectable to cause presentation at the computing device of a corresponding comment of the user-generated comments.

19. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise providing a timeline in the overlay corresponding to the presentation of the media content.

20. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the types of comments further comprise requests for review.