Real-time meeting attendance reporting

• US 9,723,035 B1
• Filed: 04/08/2013
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Siddiqui, Ahmed Fuad
• Primary Examiner(s): Angkool, David Phantana
• Application Number:
  US13/858,847
• Time in Patent Office: 1,576 Days
• Field of Search: 715753, 715768
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Techniques are described for creating real-time reports of meeting attendance. A calendar is accessed to determine the scheduled time and participants of a meeting. During the scheduled time of the meeting, locations of the scheduled participants are determined by obtaining position information from mobile devices carried by the participants. A meeting report is generated for any one or more of the participants, listing those participants who are present at the meeting. Relative positions of the attending participants may also be shown.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

accessing a calendar to determine a time of a meeting and to identify a plurality of scheduled participants who are scheduled to attend the meeting;

identifying individual mobile devices of a plurality of mobile devices that are associated respectively with individual participants of the scheduled participants;

during the time of the meeting, receiving position information regarding the plurality of the mobile devices;

determining a subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting location based at least in part on the position information;

determining that a first participant of the scheduled participants is at the meeting based on determining that a first mobile device associated with the first participant of the scheduled participants is at the meeting location;

generating an attendance map based at least in part on the position information, the attendance map indicating the name and relative position of the first participant of the scheduled participants;

receiving, via the attendance map, a selection of the first participant of the scheduled participants;

receiving spoken audio captured from a microphone of the first mobile device of the first participant of the scheduled participants; and

sending the spoken audio to at least the subset of mobile devices corresponding to the scheduled participants present at the meeting.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, the acts further comprising accessing the calendar to identify the meeting location, wherein the position information indicates proximity of the first plurality of mobile devices to the meeting location.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein determining the subset of mobile devices that are at the meeting location comprises determining which of the plurality of mobile devices are at a common location based at least in part on the position information.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the position information comprises geographic coordinates of the plurality of mobile devices.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the position information indicates proximity of the plurality of mobile devices to each other.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, the acts further comprising:

receiving video captured from a camera of a second mobile device associated with a second participant of the scheduled participants, the second mobile device belonging to the subset of mobile devices; and

sending the video to the subset of the mobile devices corresponding to the scheduled participants present at the meeting.

7. A mobile device, comprising:

a graphical display;

a camera;

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

determining a time of a meeting;

identifying scheduled participants of the meeting;

during the time of the meeting receiving position information regarding a plurality of mobile devices, wherein individual mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices correspond to individual scheduled participants of the plurality of scheduled participants;

presenting a first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants who is at the meeting on the graphical display based at least in part on the received position information;

determining that the mobile device is pointed at the first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants based at least in part on the received position information;

capturing, via the camera, an image of the first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants as the mobile device is pointed at the first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants;

displaying the image on the graphical display; and

annotating the image with information corresponding to the first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants.

8. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising:

identifying a scheduled location of the meeting; and

identifying a subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting by determining which of the plurality of mobile devices associated with the plurality of scheduled participants are at the scheduled location of the meeting.

9. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising identifying a subset of the plurality of mobile devices that are at the meeting by determining which of the plurality of mobile devices are at a common location.

10. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising identifying a subset of the plurality of mobile devices that are at the meeting by determining which of the plurality of mobile devices in proximity to each other.

11. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the position information comprises geographic coordinates of the plurality of mobile devices.

12. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the position information indicates proximity of the plurality of mobile devices to each other.

13. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the position information is received wirelessly.

14. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising displaying a map on the graphical display, wherein the map illustrates relative positions of a subset of the plurality of mobile devices that are at the meeting.

15. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising:

accessing an online directory service to obtain a name of the first participant of the plurality of the scheduled participants that is at the meeting; and

wherein the presenting comprises displaying the name of the first participant scheduled participants that is at the meeting.

16. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising archiving information regarding meeting attendance based at least in part on the presenting.

17. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising activating a microphone or camera associated with the first participant of the scheduled participants in response to the selection of the first participant of the scheduled participants.

18. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising:

accepting a selection of the first participant of the scheduled participants who are listed on the graphical display; and

enabling reproduction of spoken audio captured from a microphone of the mobile device of the particular one of the scheduled participants to a subset of the plurality of mobile devices that are at the meeting.

19. The mobile device of claim 7, the acts further comprising:

accepting a selection of the first participant of the scheduled participants who are listed on the graphical display; and

enabling reproduction of video captured from a camera of the mobile device of the first participant of the scheduled participants to a subset of the plurality of mobile devices that are at the meeting.

20. A method, comprising:

determining a time of a meeting;

identifying a plurality of participants who are scheduled to attend the meeting;

identifying individual mobile devices of a plurality of mobile devices that are associated respectively with individual participants of the participants;

determining a subset of the mobile devices that are at a meeting location;

determining that a first participant of the participants is at the meeting based at least in part on the determining of the subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting location;

generating a user interface that lists the first participant of the plurality of participants;

receiving, via the user interface, a selection of the first participant of the plurality of participants;

receiving video captured from a camera of the mobile device of the first participant of the plurality of participants; and

sending the video to the subset of the mobile devices corresponding to the participants present at the meeting.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein determining the subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting location comprises determining whether the mobile devices are at a common location.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein determining the subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting location comprises identifying a scheduled location of the meeting and determining whether the mobile devices are at the scheduled location of the meeting.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein determining the subset of the mobile devices that are at the meeting location comprises exchanging position information between the first plurality of mobile devices.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the user interface indicates relative positions of the subset of mobile devices that are at the meeting.

25. The method of claim 20, further comprising accessing a social network to obtain information regarding the first participant of the plurality of participants that is at the meeting, wherein the user interface indicates at least some of the obtained information.

26. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

receiving, via the user interface, a selection of the first participant of the plurality of participants that is at the meeting; and

reproducing spoken audio captured from a microphone of the mobile device of the first participant of the plurality of participants to the subset of mobile devices that are at the meeting.

27. The method of claim 20, further comprising generating an archival report that list the particular one of the scheduled participants as having attended the meeting.