Systems, methods, and devices for generating a summary document of an online meeting

• US 9,282,289 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GOTO Group Incorporated (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Alexandrov, Albert, Christiansen, Bernd Oliver
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US12/978,214
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,902 Days
• Field of Search: 715/202, 715/230, 715/231, 715/255, 715/751, 715/753
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• 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 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/155 involving storage of or access to video conference sessions tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831

Abstract

In various embodiments, an attendee of a live online meeting selects screen data from an earlier point in time in the online meeting for playback while the meeting is still ongoing. Automatically generated image thumbnails of the screen data for the online meeting may be employed to navigate to the earlier point in time. Attendees may annotate screenshots associated with the thumbnails, and a summary document may be generated that includes the screenshots and the annotations.

Claims

1. A method for generating a summary document of an online meeting, the method comprising:

storing, in computer memory, at least a portion of screen data representing a previously presented portion of an ongoing online meeting;

capturing a plurality of screenshots in response to trigger events, each screenshot i) being based at least in part on the stored screen data and ii) being representable as an image thumbnail, wherein capturing each screenshot of the screen data includes associating a timestamp with the screenshot, the timestamp indicating a point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting;

combining the plurality of screenshots, thereby dynamically generating a summary document summarizing the ongoing online meeting, wherein the image thumbnails representing the plurality of screenshots are for facilitating navigating through the summary document while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing; and

signaling for presenting, at a viewer computing device attending the meeting, simultaneously and while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing, first screen data corresponding to a currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting and second screen data corresponding to one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document, wherein the second screen data includes stored screen data from a previously presented portion of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein the first screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the second screen data or the second screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the first screen data, wherein signaling for presenting the first screen data corresponding to the currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting includes presenting live screen and audio data of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein signaling for presenting the second screen data corresponding to the screenshot includes displaying screen data from the previously presented portion of the online meeting corresponding to the point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting indicated by the timestamp associated with the one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the summary document to the viewer computing device attending the meeting.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an annotation from the viewer computing device attending the meeting; and

adding the annotation to the summary document.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the annotation is encrypted.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the annotation is unencrypted.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the summary document is generated by a server computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the summary document is generated by the viewer computing device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of screenshots is encrypted.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing an additional screenshot after generating the summary document; and

adding the additional screenshot to the summary document.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

signaling for providing, at the viewer computing device attending the meeting, a user interface element for selecting whether the first screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the second screen data or the second screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the first screen data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein combining the plurality of screenshots further comprises storing, in the summary document, an elapsed time occurring in the online meeting corresponding to each of the plurality of screenshots.

12. A system for generating a summary document of an online meeting, the system comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory computer readable memory, the computer readable memory storing at least a portion of screen data representing a previously presented portion of an ongoing online meeting, and further storing program code for, when executed on the processor, generating the summary document of the online meeting, the program code comprising;

image processing program code for capturing a plurality of screenshots in response to trigger events, each screenshot i) being based at least in part on the stored screen data and ii) being representable as an image thumbnail, wherein capturing each screenshot of the screen data includes associating a timestamp with the screenshot, the timestamp indicating a point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting;

combining program code for combining the plurality of screenshots, thereby dynamically generating a summary document summarizing the ongoing online meeting, wherein the image thumbnails representing the plurality of screenshots are for facilitating navigating through the summary document while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing; and

presenting program code for signaling for presenting, at a viewer computing device attending the meeting, simultaneously and while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing, first screen data corresponding to a currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting and second screen data corresponding to one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document, wherein the second screen data includes stored screen data from a previously presented portion of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein the first screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the second screen data or the second screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the first screen data, wherein signaling for presenting the first screen data corresponding to the currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting includes presenting live screen and audio data of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein signaling for presenting the second screen data corresponding to the screenshot includes displaying screen data from the previously presented portion of the online meeting corresponding to the point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting indicated by the timestamp associated with the one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising a transmitter for transmitting the summary document to the viewer computing device attending the meeting.

14. The system of claim 12, further comprising a receiver for receiving an annotation from the viewer computing device attending the meeting, and wherein the combining program code further, when executed on the processor, adds the annotation to the summary document.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the annotation is encrypted.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the annotation is unencrypted.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one of the plurality of screenshots is encrypted.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions thereon for generating a summary document of an online meeting, the computer-readable medium comprising:

instructions to store, in computer memory, at least a portion of screen data representing a previously presented portion of an ongoing online meeting;

instructions to capture a plurality of screenshots in response to trigger events, each screenshot i) being based at least in part on the stored screen data and ii) being representable as an image thumbnail, and wherein the instructions to capture the plurality of screenshots are operable to capture each screenshot of the screen data by, at least in part, associating a timestamp with the screenshot, the timestamp indicating a point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting;

instructions to combine the plurality of screenshots, thereby dynamically generating a summary document summarizing the ongoing online meeting, wherein the image thumbnails representing the plurality of screenshots are for facilitating navigating through the summary document while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing; and

instructions to signal for presenting, at a viewer computing device attending the meeting, simultaneously and while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing, first screen data corresponding to a currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting and second screen data corresponding to one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document, wherein the second screen data includes stored screen data from a previously presented portion of the ongoing online meeting, wherein the first screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the second screen data or the second screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the first screen data, wherein presenting the first screen data corresponding to the currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting includes presenting live screen and audio data of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein presenting the second screen data corresponding to the screenshot includes displaying screen data from the previously presented portion of the online meeting corresponding to the point in time in the previously presented portion of the meeting indicated by the timestamp associated with the one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising instructions to transmit the summary document to the viewer computing device attending the meeting.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising:

instructions to receive an annotation from the viewer computing device attending the meeting; and

instructions to add the annotation to the summary document.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the annotation is encrypted.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the annotation is unencrypted.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein at least one of the plurality of screenshots is encrypted.

24. A method for generating a summary document of an online meeting, the method comprising:

storing, in computer memory, at least a portion of screen data representing a previously presented portion of an ongoing online meeting;

capturing a plurality of screenshots in response to trigger events, each screenshot i) being based at least in part on the stored screen data and ii) being representable as an image thumbnail;

combining the plurality of screenshots, thereby dynamically generating a summary document summarizing the ongoing online meeting, wherein the image thumbnails representing the plurality of screenshots are for facilitating navigating through the summary document while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing;

signaling for presenting, at a viewer computing device attending the meeting, simultaneously and while the ongoing online meeting is still ongoing, first screen data corresponding to a currently presented portion of the ongoing online meeting and second screen data corresponding to one of the plurality of screenshots in the summary document, wherein the second screen data includes stored screen data from a previously presented portion of the ongoing online meeting, and wherein the first screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the second screen data or the second screen data is presented picture-in-picture inside the first screen data;

receiving a plurality of annotations from the viewer computing device attending the meeting, wherein each of the annotations is associated with one of the plurality of screenshots;

adding the annotations to the summary document; and

displaying the summary document by displaying the plurality of screenshots and the annotations, wherein the displaying includes i) displaying an author of each of the annotations, ii) displaying a first subset of the annotations on the associated screenshots, and iii) displaying a second subset of the annotations as text outside the associated screenshots.