Meeting effectiveness indicator and method
First Claim
1. A meeting effectiveness indicator comprising:
- a receiver to receive an indication from at least one transmitter that a meeting is going off topic, wherein the at least one transmitter is wired or wireless and wherein the indication is part of a binary indication system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic;
a message logic device to add the indication to a total number of indications and to determine whether the total number of indications correspond to a threshold;
a controller to set the threshold within the message logic device; and
a display to indicate to at least one participant in the meeting that the threshold for the total number of indications is reached, thereby providing a real-time status update that the meeting is going off topic.
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Abstract
A meeting effectiveness indicator provides information to participants of a meeting. The information includes messages that the meeting has gone off topic, and resources are being wasted. Participants within a room or local vicinity of the indicator used wired or wireless transmitters to send indications that the meeting is going off topic. Remote participants linked to a network also send indications via a network interface. Once a total number of indications reaches a warning threshold, the indicator warns the participants that the meeting is going off topic with a warning message. If additional indications are received, then the total number of indications will reach a tangent threshold, and the participants are alerted using a tangent message that the meeting is off topic.
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26 Claims
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1. A meeting effectiveness indicator comprising:
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a receiver to receive an indication from at least one transmitter that a meeting is going off topic, wherein the at least one transmitter is wired or wireless and wherein the indication is part of a binary indication system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic; a message logic device to add the indication to a total number of indications and to determine whether the total number of indications correspond to a threshold; a controller to set the threshold within the message logic device; and a display to indicate to at least one participant in the meeting that the threshold for the total number of indications is reached, thereby providing a real-time status update that the meeting is going off topic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A meeting effectiveness indication system comprising:
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an indication that a meeting is going off topic, wherein the indication is part of a binary indication system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic; at least one transmitter to transmit the indication that the meeting is going off topic, wherein the at least one transmitter is wired or wireless; a receiver for receiving, from the at least one transmitter, the indication that the meeting is going off topic; circuitry to indicate a total number of indications and to determine if a threshold for the total number of indications has been reached; a controller to set the threshold within the circuitry; and a display to provide an alert that the total number of indications has reached the threshold, thereby providing a real-time status update that the meeting is going off topic. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for indicating meeting effectiveness, the method comprising:
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transmitting, by at least one transmitter, an indication that a meeting is going off topic, wherein the at least one transmitter is wired or wireless and wherein the indication is part of a binary indication system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic; receiving, by a receiver, the indication from the at least one transmitter that the meeting is going off topic; adding, using circuitry, the indication to a total number of indications; determining, using circuitry, if a threshold for the total number of indications has been reached; setting the threshold within the circuitry by using a controller; and using a display to provide an alert that the total number of indications has reached the threshold, thereby providing a real-time status update that the meeting is going off topic. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A meeting effectiveness indicator comprising:
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a receiver to receive an indication from a transmitter of a participant of a meeting that a meeting is going off wherein the at least one transmitter is wired or wireless and wherein the indication is part of a binary indication system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic; a network interface to receive a network indication over a network from a remote participant of the meeting that the meeting is going off topic, wherein the network indication is part of a binary system with options to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic or not to send an indication that the meeting is going off topic; counting and message logic to determine if a total number of indications, including the transmitted indication and the network indication corresponds to at least one of a first threshold and a second threshold; a controller to set the first and second thresholds according to an input, wherein the first and second thresholds are variable; a display to scroll a message regarding the first or second threshold to the participant of the meeting;
wherein the network interface sends data to display the message to the remote participant over the network, thereby providing a real-time status update that the meeting is going off topic. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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