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Token-based control of permitted sub-sessions for online collaborative computing sessions

  • US 8,578,465 B2
  • Filed: 07/21/2009
  • Issued: 11/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • sending, from a client device, two or more sub-session requests that are sent to two or more corresponding session controllers through a computer network to respectively obtain two or more corresponding sub-session tokens that indicate in which sub-sessions of the online collaborative computing session the client device is permitted to participate, wherein the client device is associated with an organization, and wherein the session controllers are managed by the organization and permitted sub-sessions being based on whether the client device is associated with the organization or is a guest of the online collaborative computing session;

    receiving particular sub-session tokens of the two or more corresponding sub-session tokens at the client device;

    sending the received sub-session tokens from the client device to a collaboration server; and

    ,in response, establishing two or more permitted sub-sessions of the online collaborative computing session with the client device as indicated by the received sub-session tokens.

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