ACQUIRING ONLINE MEETING DATA RELATING TO AN ONLINE MEETING

• US 20150067026A1
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GOTO Group Incorporated (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Christiansen, Bernd Oliver, Alexandrov, Albert, Thapliyal, Ashish V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,356,977 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• 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 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739

Abstract

A technique acquires online meeting data relating to an online meeting. The technique involves running, by processing circuitry, a set of programs (e.g., an operating system, a slideshow application, a word processing program, other programs, etc.) to carry out an online meeting which shares online meeting content among a set of users. The technique further involves performing, while the processing circuitry runs the set of programs to carry out the online meeting, a set of information collection operations by the processing circuitry. The set of information collection operations collects online meeting data from the set of programs. The collected online meeting data includes non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs (e.g., keywords, phrases, etc. obtained via procedure calls using standard APIs to the set of programs). The technique further involves storing, by the processing circuitry, the collected online meeting data in a designated location of computer memory.

Claims

1. A method of acquiring online meeting data relating to an online meeting, the method comprising:

running, by processing circuitry, a set of programs to carry out an online meeting which shares online meeting content among a set of users;

while the processing circuitry runs the set of programs to carry out the online meeting, performing a set of information collection operations by the processing circuitry, the set of information collection operations collecting online meeting data from the set of programs, the collected online meeting data including non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs; and

storing, by the processing circuitry, the collected online meeting data in a designated location of computer memory.

2. A method as in claim 1 wherein performing the set of information collection operations includes:

performing a set of library routines via a set of function calls to a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to obtain at least some of the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs.

3. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes an operating system;

and wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting a set of window titles from the operating system via a set of operating system function calls to the operating system.

4. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes an operating system;

and wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting a set of file identifiers from the operating system via a set of file access function calls to the operating system.

5. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes a word processing application;

and wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting a set of headings from the word processing application via a set of word processing application function calls to the word processing application.

6. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes a slide presentation application;

and wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting a set of slide titles from the slide presentation application via a set of slide presentation application function calls to the slide presentation application.

7. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes a browser application;

and wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting a set of links from the browser application via a set of browser application function calls to the browser application.

8. A method as in claim 2 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes an operating system and a user-level application;

wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting some non-bitmap text-based information from the operating system via a set of operating system function calls to the operating system, and

extracting other non-bitmap text-based information from the user-level application via a set of user-level application function calls to the user-level application; and

wherein performing the set of information collection operations further includes;

tagging (i) the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the operating system and (ii) the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the user-level application to place the non-bitmap text-based information in an indexable and searchable form prior to storing the collected online meeting data in the designated location of computer memory.

9. A method as in claim 8 wherein tagging includes:

identifying keywords and phrases in the non-bitmap text-based information, and

associating respective tags with portions of the non-bitmap text-based information based on keywords and phrases identified in the portions of the non-bitmap text-based information.

10. A method as in claim 9 wherein associating the respective tags with the portions of the non-bitmap text-based information includes:

comparing the identified keywords and phrases with a predefined dictionary to discover a set of uncommon terms in the non-bitmap text-based information, and

attaching at least some of the respective tags to the portions of the non-bitmap text-based information based on the set of uncommon terms discovered in the non-bitmap text-based information.

11. A method as in claim 9, further comprising:

ranking the portions of the non-bitmap text-based information based on the associated tags to organize the portions of the non-bitmap text-based information.

12. A method as in claim 2, further comprising:

capturing screenshots of the online meeting, and

storing the captured screenshots in a set of screenshot files in the designated location of computer memory.

13. A method as in claim 2 wherein the designated location of computer memory is an online workspace;

and wherein the method further comprises;

providing remote access from the online workspace to a set of client devices through a computerized network to enable online users to access the collected online meeting data.

14. A method as in claim 2 wherein providing remote access includes:

automatically constructing and outputting a navigation page to enable the online users to find the collected online meeting data among other collections of online meeting data.

15. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a set of instructions to acquire online meeting data relating to an online meeting;

the set of instructions, when carried out by computerized circuitry, causing the computerized circuitry to perform a method of;

running a set of programs to carry out an online meeting which shares online meeting content among a set of users;

while running the set of programs to carry out the online meeting, performing a set of information collection operations by the processing circuitry, the set of information collection operations collecting online meeting data from the set of programs, the collected online meeting data including non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs; and

storing, by the processing circuitry, the collected online meeting data in a designated location of computer memory.

16. A computer program product as in claim 15 wherein performing the set of information collection operations includes:

performing a set of library routines via a set of function calls to a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to obtain at least some of the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs.

17. A computer program product as in claim 16 wherein the set of programs running on the processing circuitry includes an operating system and a user-level application;

wherein performing the set of library routines via the set of function calls to the set of APIs includes;

extracting some non-bitmap text-based information from the operating system via a set of operating system function calls to the operating system, and

extracting other non-bitmap text-based information from the user-level application via a set of user-level application function calls to the user-level application; and

wherein performing the set of information collection operations further includes;

tagging (i) the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the operating system and (ii) the non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the user-level application to place the non-bitmap text-based information in an indexable and searchable form prior to storing the collected online meeting data in the designated location of computer memory.

18. A computer program product as in claim 17 wherein the method further comprises:

capturing screenshots of the online meeting, and

storing the captured screenshots in a set of screenshot files in the designated location of computer memory.

19. A computer program product as in claim 17 wherein the designated location of the memory is an online workspace;

and wherein the method further comprises;

providing remote access from the online workspace to a set of client devices through the network interface to enable online users to access the collected online meeting data.

20. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a network interface;

memory; and

processing circuitry coupled to the network interface and the memory, the memory storing instructions which, when carried out by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to;

run a set of programs to carry out an online meeting through the network interface, the online meeting sharing online meeting content among a set of users,

while running the set of programs to carry out the online meeting, perform a set of information collection operations, the set of information collection operations collecting online meeting data from the set of programs, the collected online meeting data including non-bitmap text-based information extracted from the set of programs, and

store the collected online meeting data in a designated location of the memory.