Method and apparatus for modeling business card exchanges in a point-to-point or a multi-point personal computer conference
First Claim
1. A personal computer (PC) conference system comprising a general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application having a conference manager that includes a first function for automatically transmitting a business card data structure having information commonly found in business cards for rendering on another PC conference system in a format that resembles a business card to model business card exchanges between conference participants of a face-to-face conference, whenever the PC conference system joins a PC conference.
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Abstract
The conference manager and address service of a general purpose personal conference application are enhanced with a plurality of functions for setting up, exchanging, saving, retrieving and re-sending "business cards" electronically. The external manifestation of an electronic "business card" is a visual presentation of information commonly found on physical business cards in a format that resembles a physical business card. Preferably, the visual presentation also includes a picture of the person named. Internally, the information including the data necessary to render the picture are maintained in data structures.
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28 Claims
- 1. A personal computer (PC) conference system comprising a general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application having a conference manager that includes a first function for automatically transmitting a business card data structure having information commonly found in business cards for rendering on another PC conference system in a format that resembles a business card to model business card exchanges between conference participants of a face-to-face conference, whenever the PC conference system joins a PC conference.
- 14. A point-to-point personal conferencing system comprising a first and a second PC conference system, the first and second PC conference systems having a first and a second general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application including a first and a second conference manager having a first and a second function respectively for automatically exchanging a first and a second business card data structure having information commonly found in business cards with each other, whenever the first and the second PC conference systems join each other in a point-to-point PC conference, the exchanged information are to be rendered in a format that resembles a business card on the respective systems, thereby modeling business card exchange between conference participant of a face-to-face conference.
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21. A multi-point personal conferencing system comprising:
a first, a second and a third PC conference system, the first, second and third PC conference systems having a first, a second and a third general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application including a first, a second and a third conference manager having a first, a second and a third function respectively for automatically exchanging a first, a second and a third business card data structures having information commonly found in business cards to each other, whenever the first, the second and the third PC conference systems join each other in a multi-point PC conference, the exchanged information are to be rendered in a format that resembles a business card on the respective systems. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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