Online meeting systems and methods for handheld machines

• US 8,589,806 B1
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Sena, Raffaele
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGGETT, ANDREA C.
• Application Number:
  US12/550,070
• Time in Patent Office: 1,544 Days
• Field of Search: 715/753, 715/765
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/185 wireless packet-switched
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for providing a customized interface to a handheld collaboration machine. Some exemplary methods described include receiving sign-in information from the handheld collaboration machine. The sign-in information may correspond to an unmodified online meeting environment comprising a plurality of components. One or more customization factors of the handheld collaboration machine may be identified. The unmodified online meeting environment may be modified by removing at least one component of the plurality of components based on the customization features to generate the modified online meeting environment. The modified online meeting environment is then provided to the handheld collaboration machine.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving sign-in information from a collaboration machine comprising a mobile device, the sign-in information corresponding to an online meeting environment comprising a plurality of components;

identifying a limitation of the mobile device;

modifying the online meeting environment to selectively include a subset of the plurality of components based on the limitation to generate a modified online meeting environment for the mobile device,

the plurality of components providing a functionality to participants of an online meeting,

and the generating of the modified online meeting environment comprising including, within the modified online environment for the mobile device, visual indicators representative of a further subset of the plurality of components,

the further subset of components being hidden within the modified online meeting environment for the mobile device based on the limitation; and

providing the modified online meeting environment to the mobile device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the subset of the plurality of components comprises a single component selected from the plurality of components.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment comprises selecting the subset based on participant activity within the online meeting environment so that the subset includes a component for which the participant activity most recently occurred.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the method further including detecting participant activity with respect to a hidden component of the further subset of components within the modified online environment for the mobile device, and providing a notification of the participant activity within the modified online environment.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the online meeting environment is accessed by at least one participant using a further collaboration machine, and further comprising:

at a collaboration server, providing the online meeting environment to the further collaboration machine.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the limitation comprises a hardware specification of the mobile device.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment for the mobile device further comprises selecting an alternative component to a further subset of components of the plurality of components based on the limitation.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment for the mobile device comprises reformatting content corresponding to one of the plurality of components.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment for the mobile device comprises converting a video feed into one or more still images.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment for the mobile device comprises providing a still image of a drawing in a whiteboard component of the plurality of components.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the limitation includes at least one of:

a geographic location of the mobile device;

an application installed on the mobile device; and

a mode indicator indicating a mode of the mobile device, the mode corresponding to the subset of the plurality of the components.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the modifying of the online meeting environment comprises:

determining whether to send first data having a first size using a first connection having a first bandwidth or a second data having a second size using a second connection having a second bandwidth to the mobile device based on the limitation, the first bandwidth being higher than the second bandwidth, and

sending the first data to a participant via a non-handheld collaboration machine.

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

receiving, at the collaboration server, a selection of the plurality of components corresponding to the online meeting environment, each component of the plurality of components for execution on a further collaboration machine.

14. A computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon instructions executable by a processor for performing a method for providing a customized interface to a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving sign-in information from a mobile device, the sign-in information corresponding to an online meeting environment comprising a plurality of components;

identifying a limitation of the mobile device;

modifying the online meeting environment to selectively include a subset of the plurality of components based on the limitation of the mobile device to generate a modified online meeting environment for the mobile device,

the plurality of components providing a functionality to participants of an online meeting,

and the generating of the modified online meeting environment for the mobile device comprising including, within the modified online environment, visual indicators representative of a further subset of the plurality of components,

the further subset of components being hidden within the modified online meeting environment for the mobile device based on the limitation; and

displaying the customized interface to a user of the mobile device.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the limitation comprises a mode indicator, the mode indicator corresponding to a mode definition accessible by the collaboration server for generating the customized interface.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the mobile device comprises a mobile application to access the collaboration server.

17. A computer apparatus comprising:

at least one processor to implement a customization module to provide a customized interface comprising a plurality of components to a mobile device based on a selection of components and a limitation of the mobile device, the components providing a functionality to participants of an online meeting; and

an alternative component module to store one or more alternative components, each alternative component to replace at least one component of the selection of components in the customized interface.

18. The computer apparatus of claim 17 wherein the alternative component module is to receive the limitation from the mobile device.

19. The computer apparatus of claim 17 wherein the selection of components correspond to an online meeting environment.

20. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving an identifier corresponding to an online meeting environment from a mobile device, the online meeting environment comprising an interactive component;

determining that the mobile device is not able to provide the interactive component to a user;

modifying the online meeting environment for the mobile device by providing an alternative component in addition to the interactive component, the alternative component and the interactive component providing a functionality to participants of an online meeting; and

providing the alternative component to the mobile device.