Method for saving and accessing desktop conference characteristics with a persistent conference object
First Claim
1. A method of managing a plurality of conference parameters in a persistent conference object in a conference between participants comprising:
- (a) monitoring the conference parameters;
(b) updating the conference parameters stored in the persistent conference object;
(c) saving the conference parameters to the persistent conference object upon at least one first user-initiated command or at every predetermined time interval; and
(d) automatically resuming the conference upon a second user-initiated command;
wherein the conference parameters include a policy profile that governs operations of the conference without participants'"'"' manual intervention, said policy profile including a turn-taking protocol defining speaking rules to be followed by each participant.
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Abstract
A method of saving, retrieving and dynamically establishing a plurality of conference parameters. A desktop conferencing system includes a plurality of nodes connected in a network. A user of the desktop conferencing system is able to manipulate a persistent conference object where a persistent conference object is an object including a plurality of items of information pertaining to a desktop conference. Each of the conference parameters are monitored, updated and saved. It is then possible to retrieve and dynamically establish conference parameters of a conference stored in a persistent conference object by: (1) prompting a user for an identifier identifying a particular persistent conference object on disk; (2) opening the specified persistent conference object by copying it from disk to memory; (3) reading the conference parameters stored in the persistent conference object in memory; and (4) implementing the conference parameters to establish the desired conference environment.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of managing a plurality of conference parameters in a persistent conference object in a conference between participants comprising:
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(a) monitoring the conference parameters; (b) updating the conference parameters stored in the persistent conference object; (c) saving the conference parameters to the persistent conference object upon at least one first user-initiated command or at every predetermined time interval; and (d) automatically resuming the conference upon a second user-initiated command;
wherein the conference parameters include a policy profile that governs operations of the conference without participants'"'"' manual intervention, said policy profile including a turn-taking protocol defining speaking rules to be followed by each participant. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of automatically establishing a conference environment for participants comprising:
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(a) opening a persistent conference object on disk; (b) reading the persistent conference object for the conference parameters; and (c) implementing the conference parameters to establish the desired conference environment upon a user-initiated command; wherein the conference parameters include a policy profile that governs operations of the conference without participants'"'"' manual intervention, said policy profile including a turn-taking protocol defining speaking rules to be followed by each participant. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program, the computer program being executable by a machine, said computer program including:
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(a) a code segment for monitoring a plurality of conference parameters in a persistent conference object in a conference between participants; (b) a code segment for updating the conference parameters stored in the persistent conference object; (c) a code segment for saving the conference parameters to the persistent conference object upon at least one first user-initiated command or at every predetermined time inverval; and (d) a code segment for automatically resuming the conference upon a second user-initiated command; wherein the conference parameters include a policy profile that governs operations of the conference without participants'"'"' manual intervention, said policy profile including a turn-taking protocol defining speaking rules to be followed by each participant. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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