Web-based conference collaboration tool with dynamic content and roles

• US 8,813,196 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unisys Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unisys Corporation
• Inventors: Bower, Ross, Weller, Jedidiah, Thompson, James, Koss, Steve, Kain, Michael, Li, MeiZhi, Trinh, Phuc, Desai, Sajal
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAYOU, YONAS A
• Application Number:
  US13/675,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239180A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference.

Claims

1. A conference collaboration system comprising:

a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on a browser of the client device; and

a database connected to the server configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server,

wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each service is shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference,

wherein the server is configured to determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide at least one of the plurality of page views and at least a portion of the dynamic content in response to the authorization level,

wherein server identities a characteristic of the client device and formats a page view based on the identified characteristic, and

wherein the dynamic content is updated or created responsive to one or more actions performed by one or more client devices during the conference.

2. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the server restricts which services the client device is allowed to access in response to the authorization level.

3. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the server restricts which dynamic content the client device is allowed to access in response to the authorization level.

4. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the plurality of services includes a chat service, a notification service, a document access service, an schedule service, a presentation service, a survey service, and administrative service.

5. The conference collaboration tool of claim 4, wherein the server provides read-only dynamic content in the document access service if the authorization level of the user interacting with the client device has only read-only privileges.

6. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the conference is a live, in-person meeting.

7. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the server updates dynamic content or provides new dynamic content if the authorization level of the user interacting with the client device and the service allows the client device to receive new dynamic content.

8. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the plurality page views may be organized in a hierarchy including a main menu, service page views organized under the main menu, and sub-views respectively organized under the services page views.

10. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the client device is a mobile device.

11. The conference collaboration tool of claim 1, wherein the authorization levels include system administrator with full privileges to all conferences, presenter with full privileges to the conference, registered user with privileges determined by the system administer and presenter, guest with privileges determined by the system administer and presenter and no username or password, and door account with privileges to see a description of the conference and send a notification.

9. The conference collaboration tool of claim it the server updates the dynamic content of the requested page view at periodic intervals after an initial page load.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request for a page view and dynamic content from a web browser of a client device through a network during a conference;

determining, by a server, an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device;

identifying, by a server, a characteristic of the client device;

accessing, by a server, the dynamic content associated with the conference front a database, wherein the dynamic content is to be input into content tables in the page view displayed on the client device;

filtering, by a server, the dynamic content from the database according to the authorization level;

generating, by a server, the page view for the client device;

formatting, by a server, the page view based on the identified characteristic of the client device;

providing, by a server, the dynamic content for the page view to the client device; and

updating, by a server, the dynamic content in the database according to an input received from the client device, wherein the page view reloads at a periodic interval for displaying the updated dynamic content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the server restricts which services the client device is allowed to access in response to the authorization level.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the server restricts which dynamic content the client device is allowed to access in response to the authorization level.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the conference is a live, in-person meeting.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the page views may be organized in a hierarchy including a main menu, service page views organized under the main menu, and sub-views respectively organized under the services page views.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the client device is a mobile device.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the authorization levels include system administrator with full privileges, presenter with full privileges to the conference, registered user with privileges determined by the system administer and presenter, guest with privileges determined by the system administer and presenter and no username or password, and door account with privileges to see a description of the conference and send a notification.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the client device may request page views and dynamic content to be sent to an organizer during the conference to ask a question or provide a comment.

20. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request from web browser of a client device of an attendee or organizer through a network during a conference for a document displayed in a document service associated with the conference;

determining, by a server, an authorization level of the attendee or organizer interacting with the client device;

accessing, by a server, the document requested by the client device;

determining, by a server, whether the document may be viewed by the client device according to the authorization level;

identifying, by a server, a characteristic of the client device;

generating, by a server, the page view for the document if the client device has access to the document;

formatting, by a server, the pace view based on the characteristic of the client device; and

providing, by a server, the dynamic content of the document in the page view to the client device.