INITIATING A CONFERENCING MEETING USING A CONFERENCE ROOM DEVICE

• US 20200137130A1
• Filed: 12/23/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Griffin, Keith, Williams, Otto N., Moorefield, JR., Wayne
• Granted Patent: US 11,233,833 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06314 Calendaring for a resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a conference room device configured to aid the initiation, organization, and management of a conference meeting. A conference room device is configured to determine that a user is within a threshold distance of a conference room device and that the user is associated with a conference meeting at a current time. The conference room device is further configured to prompt the user to start the conference meeting, receive a confirmation from the user; and start the conference meeting.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining a conference room device is within range of a user device;

accessing a scheduling service to identify a conference meeting associated with the user device;

transmitting a request to the user device to prompt the user to start the conference meeting;

receiving a confirmation response from the user; and

starting the conference meeting based on the confirmation response.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the conference room device is determined to be within range of the user device via an ultrasonic sensor.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2,

wherein,

the determining that the conference room device is within range of the user comprises receiving, from a client device associated with the user, an ultrasonic token emitted from the ultrasonic sensor, and

the ultrasonic token is associated with a location and a time.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the determining that the conference room device is within range of the user comprises receiving, from the conference room device, an ultrasonic token emitted from a client device associated with the user and detected by the ultrasonic sensor.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1,

wherein,

the accessing of the scheduling service to identify the conference meeting associated with the user includes locating an entry for a current time in a conference room device calendar associated with the conference room device, and

the user and another user are listed as participants in the conference meeting via the entry.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1,

wherein,

the accessing of the scheduling service to identify the conference meeting associated with the user includes locating an entry for a current time in a calendar of the user, and

the conference room device is listed in the entry.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

emitting an audible request by the conference room device.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting an electronic request to a collaboration application on a client device, the electronic request including a request to start the conference meeting.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to a screen input device, instructions to initiate a screen for the conference meeting.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the conference room device is determined to be within range of the user device via a time-of-flight sensor.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the conference meeting from among a plurality of conference meetings by identifying a matching entries associated with the conference meeting.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a second user within range of the conference room device not listed as a participant for the conference meeting; and

notifying the user about the second user.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

determine a conference room device is within range of a user device;

access a scheduling service to identify a conference meeting associated with the user device;

transmit a request to the user device to prompt the user to start the conference meeting;

receive a confirmation response from the user; and

start the conference meeting based on the confirmation response.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the conference room device is determined to be within range of the user device via an ultrasonic token transmitted from an ultrasonic sensor, the ultrasonic token associated with a location and a time.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein identifying the conference meeting includes locating an entry for a current time in a calendar of the user.

16. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

determining a conference room device is within range of a user device;

accessing a scheduling service to identify a conference meeting associated with the user device;

transmitting a request to the user device to prompt the user to start the conference meeting;

receiving a confirmation response from the user; and

starting the conference meeting based on the confirmation response.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the conference room device is determined to be within range of the user device via an ultrasonic token transmitted from an ultrasonic sensor, the token associated with a location and a time.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the operations include transmitting, to a screen input device, instructions to initiate a screen for the conference meeting.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the operations include causing an audio interface to communicate with the user.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the audio interface includes a speaker and a microphone.