Methods and apparatuses for selectively providing privacy through a dynamic social network system

• US 20070005695A1
• Filed: 06/29/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Webex LLC (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Lei, Zhu, Min, Chen, Weidong
• Granted Patent: US 7,765,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses initiate a collaboration session from a presenter participant; select an available profile from a plurality of overall profiles based on a hierarchy structure of the plurality of overall profiles and a presenter profile corresponding to the presenter participant; and invite an attendee to the collaboration session by the presenter participant wherein the attendee corresponds to the available profile.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

initiating a collaboration session from a presenter participant;

selecting an available profile from a plurality of overall profiles based on a hierarchy structure of the plurality of overall profiles and a presenter profile corresponding to the presenter participant; and

inviting an attendee to the collaboration session by the presenter participant wherein the attendee corresponds to the available profile.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising presenting the available profile to the presenter participant.

3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising detecting a subject matter of the collaboration.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein detecting further comprises detecting a title of the collaboration session.

5. The method according to claim 4 further comprising selecting the potential profile from the plurality of profiles based on the score.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the hierarchy structure recites an employer associated with each of the plurality of overall profiles.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the hierarchy structure recites an organization level within an employer associated with each of the plurality of overall profiles.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the collaboration session exchanges audio content among a plurality of participants of the collaboration session.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the collaboration session exchanges graphical content among a plurality of participants of the collaboration session.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the collaboration session exchanges textual content among a plurality of participants of the collaboration session.

11. A system, comprising:

a storage module configured to store a plurality of profiles wherein each profile corresponds to a user that participates in a collaboration session;

a profile manager module configured to organize the plurality of profiles based on an attribute of each of the plurality of profiles; and

a security manager module configured to select one of the plurality of profiles based on the attribute.

12. The system according to claim 11 wherein storage module is configured to store the attribute with the profile.

13. The system according to claim 11 wherein the attribute is a company name.

14. The system according to claim 11 wherein the attribute is a title within a company.

15. The system according to claim 11 wherein the attribute is a position based on a hierarchy with an organization.

16. The system according to claim 11 wherein the security manager module is configured to select a group from the plurality of profiles.

17. The system according to claim 16 wherein each of the profiles within the group of profiles are capable of inviting each other to the collaboration session.

18. A system comprising:

means for initiating a collaboration session from a presenter participant;

means for selecting an available profile from a plurality of overall profiles based on a hierarchy structure of the plurality of overall profiles and a presenter profile corresponding to the presenter participant; and

means for inviting an attendee to the collaboration session by the presenter participant wherein the attendee corresponds to the available profile.

19. The system according to claim 18 wherein the means for selecting includes a security manager module configured to detect the hierarchy structure.

20. The system according to claim 18 wherein the means for selecting includes a security manager module configured to detect the presenter profile and compare with the plurality of overall profiles.