Augmented screen sharing in an electronic meeting

• US 9,390,403 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Scherpa, Josef
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Hien
• Application Number:
  US13/369,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

Described are systems for providing contextually relevant data to participants of an electronic communication. A screen sharing session is established between a plurality of participants of the electronic communication. A set of contextual relevance data is determined between contents of the screen sharing session, at least one of the participants, and external data related to the at least one of the participants. The screen sharing session is changed to include the contextual relevance data.

Claims

1. A system for displaying content to participants in an electronic communication, comprising:

a processor;

a computer-implemented shared content identification module that is executed by the processor and that scans a screen sharing session of the participants that includes a first participant and a second participant, the screen sharing session being displayed at a computer screen of the first participant to identify contents of the screen sharing session;

a computer-implemented context engine module that determines contextual relevance data, using one or more rules, between identified shared contents of the screen sharing session, the participants, and external data related to at least one of the participants, the contextual relevance data including data related to a contextual relationship between a result of the scan of the screen sharing session and at least one of the first and second participants;

a computer-implemented relevance data overlay module that

(1) augments the screen sharing session on the computer screen of the first participant to display first participant augmented information which includes both the shared contents and contextual relevance data that is relevant to the first participant, and

(2) augments the screen sharing session on a computer screen of a second participant to display second participant augmented information which includes both the shared contents and contextual relevance data that is relevant to the second participant and different than the contextual relevance data that is relevant to the first participant; and

a view control module that provides the first participant with an ability to view the contextual relevance data that is relevant to the second participant,

wherein locations of the displayed contextual relevance data on the computer screens of the first and second participants are determined by the one or more rules.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rules engine module that defines the one or more rules for identifying the contents of the screen sharing session.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the rules engine module defines the one or more rules for outputting the external data to the screen sharing session from a data source.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising the view control module that provides the participants with the ability to simultaneously view both the contextual relevance data that is relevant to themselves and the contextual relevance data that is relevant to another participant.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the context engine module compares the identified contents of the screen sharing session with the external data to verify that the identified contents are contextually relevant to at least one of the participants.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the system determines a region of the screen sharing session for augmenting the screen sharing session in response to applying the one or more rules to the identified shared contents.

6. A computer program product for providing contextually relevant data to participants of an electronic communication, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to establish a screen sharing session between a plurality of participants of the electronic communication that includes a first participant and a second participant;

computer readable program code configured to determine contextual relevance data, using one or more rules, between shared contents of the screen sharing session, the participants, and external data related to the participants, the contextual relevance data including data related to a contextual relationship between a result of the scan of the screen sharing session and the at least one of the first and second participants; and

computer readable program code configured to

(1) augment the screen sharing session on a computer screen of the first participant to display first participant augmented information which includes both the shared contents and contextual relevance data that is relevant to the first participant, and

(2) augment the screen sharing session on a computer screen of the second participant to display second participant augmented information which includes both the shared contents and contextual relevance data that is relevant to the second participant and different than the contextual relevance data that is relevant to the first participant; and

computer readable program code configured to provide the first participant with an ability to simultaneously view the contextual relevance data that is relevant to the first participant and the contextual relevance data that is relevant to the second participant another,

wherein locations of the displayed contextual relevance data on the computer screens of the first and second participants are determined by the one or more rules.