Web site having a zone layout

• US 20040148340A1
• Filed: 01/29/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Combots Product GmbH
• Original Assignee: WEB.DE AG (Cinetic Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung & Vertrieb von Medien)
• Inventors: Cotte, Pierre-Alain
• Application Number:
  US10/354,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20040148340A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/22 Automatic class or number identification arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/382 using authorisation codes or passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42093 Notifying the calling party of information on the called or connected party

Abstract

A web site for providing communications includes a web page corresponding to a specific entity and a processing device. A layout of the web page includes a plurality of zones. The processing device is configured to provide, upon an accessing of the web page, private communications between an end user unit and the specific entity.

Claims

1. A web site for providing communications, comprising:

a web page corresponding to a specific entity, a layout of the web page including a plurality of zones; and

a processing device configured to provide, upon an accessing of the web page, private communications between an end user unit and the specific entity.

2. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the zones include at least one of a signalling zone, a real-time zone, a controlling zone, a settings zone, an interactive zone, a personal data zone, a personal portal zone, a personal homepage zone and a video conferencing zone.

3. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the layout of the web page is tailored to a respective calling party of the web site.

4. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein a respective content of the zones is tailored to a respective calling party of the web site.

5. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the layout of the web page is capable of being modified in response to an event.

6. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the zones include a videoconferencing zone, a rendering of a person displayed in the videoconferencing zone being highlighted.

7. The web site as recited in claim 6 wherein the rendering of the person is a picture of the person and wherein the highlighting includes enlarging the picture of the person.

8. The web site as recited in claim 6 wherein the person is a current speaker of a videoconference.

9. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the processing device is configured to provide the private communications as a function of a state of the web site, the state being modifiable using at least one of the zones.

10. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the private communications are bi-directional between the end user unit and the specific entity.

11. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the accessing is an accessing by the first end user unit.

12. The web site as recited in claim 1 wherein the accessing is an accessing by the specific entity.

13. A communications environment, comprising:

a first end user unit configured to perform network-based communications; and

a web site corresponding to a specific entity and including a web page having a layout with a plurality of zones, the web site being configured to provide, upon an accessing of the web page, private communications between the first end user unit and the specific entity.

14. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein web site resides on a portal.

15. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein the zones include at least one of a signalling zone, a real-time zone, a controlling zone, a settings zone, an interactive zone, a personal data zone, a personal portal zone, a personal homepage zone and a video conferencing zone.

16. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein the web site is configured to provide the private communications as function of a state of the web site.

17. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein the layout of the web site is tailored to a respective calling party of the web site.

18. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein a respective content of the zones is tailored to a respective calling party of the web site.

19. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein the layout of the web page is capable of being modified in response to an event.

20. The communications environment as recited in claim 13 wherein the private communications are bi-directional between the end user unit and the specific entity.

21. A method for providing communications, comprising:

providing a web site configured to provide private communications between a calling party and a specific entity associated with a web page of the web site, a layout of the web page including a plurality of zones; and

tailoring the layout to the calling party.

22. The method as recited in claim 21 further comprising modifying the layout in response to an event.

23. The method as recited in claim 21 wherein the private communications are bi-directional between the first end user unit and the specific entity.

24. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable process steps operative to perform a method for providing communications, the method comprising:

providing a web site configured to provide private communications between a calling party and a specific entity associated with a web page of the web site, a layout of the web page including a plurality of zones; and

tailoring the layout to the calling party.

25. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 24 wherein the private communications are bi-directional between the end user unit and the specific entity.

26. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 24 wherein the method further comprises modifying the layout in response to an event.