WHITEBOARD RECORDS ACCESSIBILITY

• US 20140165152A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Farouki, Karim
• Application Number:
  US13/711,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20140165152A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• 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 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• 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: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for providing whiteboard records accessibility to users interacting with a whiteboard. A whiteboard may enable two or more users to interact with the whiteboard concurrently. The whiteboard may identify the users interacting with the whiteboard and may identify permission settings associated with the users. Based on the identification of the users and detected permission settings, the whiteboard may activate a whiteboard records accessibility mode to provide access to whiteboard records. In a public mode, any user may interact with the whiteboard, and the whiteboard may provide access to a public records data store. In a private mode, the whiteboard may provide access to a separate private records data store associated with an authenticated user interacting with the whiteboard. When two users interact with the whiteboard concurrently, the whiteboard may separate the whiteboard records such that each user can access records corresponding to the detected permission settings.

Claims

1. A method executed at least in part in a computing device for enabling whiteboard records accessibility, the method comprising:

detecting a request to interact with a whiteboard;

identifying and authenticating a requesting user;

determining one or more permission level settings associated with the user;

activating a records accessibility mode;

providing access to whiteboard records through the whiteboard to the user based on the one or more permission level settings associated with the user; and

in response to the whiteboard receiving an input from the user, recognizing, tracking, and distinguishing content that is input such that the content displayed on the whiteboard indicates that the user provided the content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting a request to interact with the whiteboard further comprises:

detecting one or more of;

an input action, newly generated content, and an edit to existing content displayed on the whiteboard.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying and authenticating the user employing one or more of;

a facial recognition, a body recognition, a presence recognition, a motion sensing recognition, a finger recognition, a hand recognition, a gesture recognition, an input device recognition, scanning a badge with a reader, scanning a QR code with a QR reader, and a manual log-in.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

activating one or more of;

a public mode and a private mode based on the authentication of the user and the determined permission level settings.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

activating the public mode upon detection of an initial interaction with the whiteboard.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

when the whiteboard is activated in the public mode, providing whiteboard records from a public records data store.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

activating the private mode upon authentication of the user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

when the whiteboard is activated in the private mode, providing whiteboard records from a private records data store associated with the authenticated user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing records from the private records data store corresponding to the detected permission level settings.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the detected permission level settings include one or more of:

administrative, read-only, and edit access.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling two or more users to interact with the whiteboard concurrently.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting permission level settings for each of the two or more users interacting with the whiteboard; and

providing whiteboard records to the two or more users concurrently based on a most restrictive detected permission level setting.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting permission level settings for each of the two or more users interacting with the whiteboard; and

separating the whiteboard records on the whiteboard such that each user has access to the whiteboard records corresponding to each user'"'"'s detected permission level setting.

14. A computing device for enabling whiteboard records accessibility, the computing device comprising:

a memory storing instructions;

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a whiteboard access application, wherein the whiteboard access application is configured to;

detect a request to interact with a whiteboard;

identify and authenticate a requesting user;

determine permission level settings associated with the user;

activate a records accessibility mode;

provide access to whiteboard records through one or more of the whiteboard and a networked computing device in communication with the whiteboard to the user based on the one or more permission level settings associated with the user;

divide the whiteboard records based on the one or more permission level settings associated with the user, wherein if the user has a less restrictive permission level, the user is provided access to private data associated with the user in a private mode, and if the user has a more restrictive permission level, the user is provided access to public whiteboard records in a public mode; and

if the user is provided access to the whiteboard records in the private mode, automatically restore the whiteboard records to the public mode after a predefined period of inactivity and/or a log-out by the user.

15. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the records accessibility mode includes one or more of:

the private mode and the public mode, and wherein the public mode is automatically activated upon detection of an initial interaction with the whiteboard, and the private mode is activated based on the authentication of the user and the determined permission level settings.

16. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the records accessibility mode includes a presenter mode.

17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein a presenting user is provided whiteboard records from a private whiteboard records store associated with the presenting user and a viewing user is provided whiteboard records from a public whiteboard records store when the whiteboard is activated in the presenter mode.

18. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for enabling whiteboard records accessibility, the instructions containing:

detecting a request to interact with a whiteboard;

identifying and authenticating a requesting user;

determining permission level settings associated with the user;

activating a records accessibility mode including one or more of;

a public mode and a private mode;

providing access to whiteboard records through one or more of the whiteboard and a networked computing device in communication with the whiteboard to the user based on the one or more permission level settings associated with the user;

in response to the whiteboard receiving input from the user, recognizing, tracking, and distinguishing content that is input such that the content displayed on the whiteboard indicates that the user provided the content;

allowing the user to designate the permission level settings required for the content saved to whiteboard records; and

if the user is provided access to the whiteboard records in the private mode, automatically restoring the whiteboard records to the public mode after a predefined period of inactivity and/or a log-out by the user.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 18, further comprising:

when the whiteboard is activated in the public mode, providing whiteboard records from a public records data store; and

when the whiteboard is activated in the private mode, providing whiteboard records corresponding to the determined permission level setting of the user from a private records data store associated with the authenticated user.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 19, wherein the instructions further comprise:

enabling the user to share private whiteboard records associated with the user with one or more other users; and

storing the user'"'"'s private whiteboard records in a whiteboard records data store associated with the one or more other users.