Clickable links within live collaborative web meetings

• US 9,411,789 B1
• Filed: 03/11/2016
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chitta, Anuradha D., Rai, Ranjit S., Limaye, Soumitra G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US15/067,327
• Time in Patent Office: 151 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/15 Synchronised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• 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: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

An approach for creating a clickable link within a presentation during a live collaborative web meeting is provided. The approach identifies one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation. The approach retrieves metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation. The approach presents the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with a corresponding image from the presentation. The approach creates the clickable link for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with the corresponding image.

Claims

1. A method for creating a clickable link within a presentation during a live collaborative web meeting, the method comprising:

identifying, by one or more computer processors, one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation, wherein identifying the one or more uniform resource locators includes scanning a plurality of slides within the presentation for one or more uniform resource locators, wherein scanning includes utilizing a conventional text scanner to identify uniform resource locator text patterns and active hyperlinks;

retrieving, by one or more computer processors, metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation, wherein retrieving the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation includes extracting information related to each of one or more identified uniform resource locators, wherein the information related to each of the one or more identified uniform resource locators includes at least one of a uniform resource locator text, a page number from the presentation where an identified uniform resource locator exists, and a position of an identified uniform resource locator within a slide of the presentation;

presenting, by one or more computer processors, the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with a corresponding image from the presentation, wherein presenting the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with a corresponding image from the presentation includes utilizing a server-side component to retrieve metadata stored in a database for each of one or more identified uniform resource locators within a slide of the presentation, and overlaying the metadata at a position within the corresponding image where each of the one or more identified uniform resource locators were originally located; and

creating, by one or more computer processors, the clickable link for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with the corresponding image, wherein creating the clickable link for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with the corresponding image includes identifying a position within the image where an overlay of metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators is located, enabling the overlay of the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators to function as a clickable link at a position within the image that mirrors an original position of each of the one or more uniform resource locators identified in the presentation, and utilizing a client-side component to present the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators as a clickable link within an image screen shared during the live collaborative web meeting.