Method for securely distributing meeting data from interactive whiteboard projector

• US 9,215,272 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2014
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nelson, Steve, Ivashin, Victor
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Viet
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chambers, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US14/497,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20150012836A1
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 709203-204, 715/738, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/162 Delete operations erasing in storage systems G06F3/0652
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0838 using one-time-passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/168 above the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Distributing meeting data from an interactive whiteboard projector to at least one computer of a meeting member, comprises: in the interactive whiteboard projector, using a processor to save meeting data, generate a password, display a screen with a URL of the projector and the password and use a web server to transfer the meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer.

Claims

1. A method for distributing meeting data from an interactive whiteboard projector to at least one computer of a meeting member, comprising:

providing said interactive whiteboard projector, said interactive whiteboard projector being an image projector configured to project on any projection surface area an interactive image responsive to physical interactions between a human user and the projection surface area to create a collaborative interactive workspace lacking any dedicated interactive whiteboard, said image projector having an internal processor, an internal memory and internal web server software package, said image projector further having an Universal Resource Locator (URL);

in the image projector, using said internal processor to;

save meeting data, including at least some of the interactive image'"'"'s responses to user inputs, in said internal memory; and

use said internal web server software package to transfer the meeting data from the image projector'"'"'s internal memory to the at least one computer, wherein said at least one computer is remote from said image projector and uses said URL to access said image projector through a network.

2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

in the at least one computer, using a processor to;

access the URL of the projector using a web browser; and

transfer the meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector.

3. The method as in claim 2, further comprising:

in the at least one computer, using the processor to

select individual whiteboard files of meeting data for transferring from the interactive whiteboard projector.

4. The method as in claim 2, further comprising deleting the meeting data saved on the interactive whiteboard projector once all meeting data has been transferred.

5. The method as in claim 1, further comprising transferring encrypted meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer across the network using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol.

6. An interactive whiteboard projector for distributing meeting data to at least one computer of a meeting member, comprising:

an image projector configured to project an interactive image responsive to user inputs and lacking a dedicated interactive whiteboard, said image projector having an internal processor, an internal memory and internal web server software package, said image projector further having an Universal Resource Locator (URL);

wherein said internal processor is configured to;

save meeting data, including at least some of the interactive image'"'"'s responses to user inputs, in said internal memory; and

use said internal web server software package to transfer the meeting data from the image projector'"'"'s internal memory to the at least one computer, wherein said at least one computer is remote from said image projector and uses said URL to access said image projector through a network.

7. The interactive whiteboard projector as in claim 6, wherein the processor deletes the meeting data saved on the interactive whiteboard projector once all meeting data has been transferred to the at least one computer.

8. The interactive whiteboard projector as in claim 6, wherein the processor transfers encrypted meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer across the network using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol.

9. One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media embodying instructions executable by a data processor to perform a method for distributing meeting data from an interactive whiteboard projector to at least one computer of a meeting member, the method comprising:

wherein said interactive whiteboard projector is an image projector configured to project an interactive image responsive to user inputs and lacking a dedicated interactive whiteboard, and wherein said image projector houses said data processor, an internal memory and internal web server software package, and said image projector has an Universal Resource Locator (URL);

in the interactive whiteboard projector, using said data processor to;

save meeting data, including at least some of the interactive image'"'"'s responses to user inputs, in said internal memory; and

use said internal web server software package to transfer the meeting data from the image projector'"'"'s internal memory to the at least one computer, wherein said at least one computer is remote from said image projector and uses said URL to access said image projector through a network.

10. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media as in claim 9, further comprising:

in the at least one computer, using a processor of the computer to;

access the URL of the projector using a web browser; and

transfer the meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector.

11. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media as in claim 10, further comprising:

in the at least one computer, using the processor of the computer to

select individual whiteboard files of meeting data for transferring from the interactive whiteboard projector.

12. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media as in claim 10, wherein the method further comprises deleting the meeting data saved on the interactive whiteboard projector once all meeting data has been transferred by the at least one computer.

13. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media as in claim 9, wherein the method further comprises transferring encrypted meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer across the network using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol.