Automated meeting room

• US 9,516,022 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GOTO Group Incorporated (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GetGo, Inc. (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Inventors: Borzycki, Andrew, Deva, Mallikharjuna Reddy, Bissett, Nick, Roychoudhry, Anil, Duursma, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Jhaveri, Jayesh
• Application Number:
  US14/043,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20140109210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,162 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15

Abstract

Methods and systems for automatic setup and initiation of meeting resources are described herein. A meeting room, area, or resource may be equipped with a camera or other proximity based sensor to determine when a user enters the meeting area. The camera may perform initial recognition of a user, e.g., based on facial or body recognition. The system may then authenticate the user as the meeting organizer using a second recognition technique, e.g., voice recognition. Based on the user authentication, the system may query the meeting organizer'"'"'s calendar (or other resource) for meeting information, download an associated meeting presentation from cloud storage, initiate meeting (e.g., screen sharing) software, notify any missing attendees that the meeting has begun, and launch the presentation on a shared screen. The meeting organizer may then control the presentation using video and/or voice. All may be completed without the meeting organizer being required to touch anything.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;

determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;

determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;

responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;

obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;

providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;

starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;

notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sending a message to the missing attendee via the social network, and, when not so, sending a message to the missing attendee via text message; and

receiving non-touch user input from the meeting organizer to progress through the presentation.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the proximity-based sensor comprises a camera;

and

wherein said facial recognition includes receiving video frames through the proximity-based sensor.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said facial recognition further includes comparing the video frames to face prints stored in a facial identification database.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said voice recognition includes:

receiving the user'"'"'s voice through a microphone; and

recording the user'"'"'s voice received through the microphone to generate audio frames.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said voice recognition further includes comparing the audio frames to voice prints stored in a voice identification database.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein required attendees are notified via one or more social networks.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein required attendees are notified by text message.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said non-touch user input comprises speech.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said non-touch user input comprises detection and recognition of physical movement by the meeting organizer.

21. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a storage location at which one of the meeting resources is stored; and

downloading that meeting resource from the storage location to the computer in the predetermined area.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein authenticating the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer comprises:

authenticating, using the credential service on the networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer based on user-specific information received from the user in response to a request for the user-specific information.

23. The method of claim 5, wherein determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer includes querying an electronic calendar of the user and determining that the user is host of an online meeting, and further comprising:

determining, by a rules engine, responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to the identity of the meeting organizer, that the user needs to be further authenticated as the meeting organizer; and

wherein authenticating the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer by voice recognition is responsive to the rules engine determining that the user needs to be further authenticated as the meeting organizer.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions; and

at least one memory storing the computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform;

detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;

determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;

determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;

responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;

obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user as the meeting organizer;

providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;

starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;

notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sending a message to the missing attendee via the social network, and, when not so, sending a message to the missing attendee via text message; and

receiving non-touch user input from the meeting organizer to progress through the presentation.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the proximity-based sensor comprises a camera;

and

wherein said facial recognition includes receiving video frames through the proximity-based sensor.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said facial recognition further includes comparing the video frames to face prints stored in a facial identification database.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said voice recognition includes:

receiving the user'"'"'s voice through a microphone; and

recording the user'"'"'s voice received through the microphone to generate audio frames.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein said voice recognition further includes comparing the audio frames to voice prints stored in a voice identification database.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein required attendees are notified via one or more social networks.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein required attendees are notified by email.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein required attendees are notified by text message.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said non-touch user input comprises speech.

19. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said non-touch user input comprises detection and recognition of physical movement by the meeting organizer.

20. One or more tangible computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, configure a system to perform:

detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;

determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;

determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;

responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, an identity of the user as a meeting organizer, said authenticating based on voice recognition;

obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user as the meeting organizer;

providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;

starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;

notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sending a message to the missing attendee via the social network, and, when not so, sending a message to the missing attendee via text message; and

progressing the presentation based on audio or video input received from the meeting organizer.

24. A method comprising:

detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;

determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;

determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;

responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;

obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;

providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;

starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;

notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance;

receiving non-touch user input from the meeting organizer to progress through the presentation;

checking social network sites of each of the required attendees to determine whether each of the required attendees are online in one of the social networks; and

wherein notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance includes

posting meeting reminder messages in the one or more social networks for those of the required attendees that are determined not to be in attendance that are online in one of the social networks, and

sending electronic mail reminder meeting reminder messages to those of the required attendees that are determined not to be in attendance that are not online in one of the social networks.