Information sharing democratization for co-located group meetings
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1. A computer-implemented process for democratizing information sharing during a co-located group meeting in a meeting space, comprising:
- using a computer to performing the following process actions;
whenever a first condition occurs comprising a first meeting attendee who is within a first prescribed distance of a public display device comprising a touch-enabled display screen in the meeting space forming a remote location indicator posture and remotely pointing said posture at a second meeting attendee who is not within the prescribed distance of the public display device,operating cooperatively with both an audience-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space, and a presenter-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space, to identify the first condition, identify the second meeting attendee, and identify a personal computing device that is associated with the second meeting attendee, andenabling a presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode for as long as the first condition continues; and
whenever the presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode is enabled and the first meeting attendee performs an information-push touch gesture on an information object that is displayed on the display screen, transmitting a copy of said information object to said personal computing device.
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Abstract
Information sharing between meeting attendees during a co-located group meeting in a meeting space is democratized using a computer that is operating cooperatively with one or more object sensing devices in the meeting space to identify postures formed by the meeting attendees.
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1. A computer-implemented process for democratizing information sharing during a co-located group meeting in a meeting space, comprising:
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using a computer to performing the following process actions; whenever a first condition occurs comprising a first meeting attendee who is within a first prescribed distance of a public display device comprising a touch-enabled display screen in the meeting space forming a remote location indicator posture and remotely pointing said posture at a second meeting attendee who is not within the prescribed distance of the public display device, operating cooperatively with both an audience-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space, and a presenter-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space, to identify the first condition, identify the second meeting attendee, and identify a personal computing device that is associated with the second meeting attendee, and enabling a presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode for as long as the first condition continues; and whenever the presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode is enabled and the first meeting attendee performs an information-push touch gesture on an information object that is displayed on the display screen, transmitting a copy of said information object to said personal computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for democratizing information sharing during a co-located group meeting in a meeting space, comprising:
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a public display device comprising a touch-enabled display screen in the meeting space; an audience-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space; a presenter-oriented object sensing device in the meeting space; one or more computing devices, said computing devices being in communication with the public display device and the audience-oriented and presenter-oriented object sensing devices via a computer network, said computing devices also being in communication with each other via the computer network whenever there is a plurality of computing devices; and a computer program having program modules executable by the one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices being directed by the program modules of the computer program to, whenever a first condition occurs comprising a first meeting attendee who is within a first prescribed distance of the public display device forming a remote location indicator posture and remotely pointing said posture at a second meeting attendee who is not within the prescribed distance of the public display device, operate cooperatively with both the audience-oriented and presenter-oriented object sensing devices to identify the first condition, identify the second meeting attendee, and identify a personal computing device that is associated with the second meeting attendee, and enable a presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode for as long as the first condition continues, and whenever the presenter-to-audience-member transfer mode is enabled and the first meeting attendee performs an information-push touch gesture on an information object that is displayed on the display screen, transmit a copy of said information object to said personal computing device.
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18. A computer-implemented process for democratizing information sharing during a co-located group meeting in a meeting space, comprising:
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using a computer to performing the following process actions; whenever a first condition occurs comprising a first meeting attendee who is using a touch-enabled non-handheld computing device forming a remote location indicator posture and remotely pointing said posture at a second meeting attendee, operating cooperatively with an object sensing device in the meeting space to identify the first condition, identify the second meeting attendee, and identify a personal computing device that is associated with the second meeting attendee, and enabling a peer-to-peer transfer mode for as long as the first condition continues; and whenever the peer-to-peer transfer mode is enabled and the first meeting attendee performs an information-push touch gesture on a first information object that is displayed on a display screen of the non-handheld computing device, receiving a copy of the first information object from the non-handheld computing device, and forwarding the copy of the first information object to said personal computing device. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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