Collaborative meeting assistant

• US 20070150512A1
• Filed: 12/15/2005
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chitsaz, Behrooz, Kong, Yuan, Williams, David, Kurlander, David
• Application Number:
  US11/300,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20070150512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A data collaboration system that aggregates data from a number of multi-modal mobile devices in connection with collaborative note taking, presentation generation, memorializing a meeting, etc. The data collaboration system can automatically compile, index and/or memorialize data from numerous multi-modal multi-lingual mobile devices. More particularly, the system can filter and aggregate information from a plurality of disparate multi-modal devices. The system can facilitate indexing information gathered from a group of multi-modal mobile devices. The indexing can be based upon any desired criteria including but not limited to information type, importance, etc.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates organizing data, comprising:

an interface component that receives data from a plurality of network-connected multi-modal devices; and

a collaboration component that aggregates at least a subset of the data based at least in part upon a context.

2. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component includes an indexing component that categorizes the subset of the data into a defined classification.

3. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component includes a memorialize component that journalizes the subset of the data.

4. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component includes a video control component that activates a video capture device integral to one of the plurality of network-connected multi-modal devices based at least in part upon the context, the video capture device facilitates generation of the data.

5. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component includes an audio control component that activates an audio capture device integral to one of the plurality of network-connected multi-modal devices based at least in part upon the context, the audio capture device facilitates generation of the data.

6. The system of claim 5, the collaboration component further comprises a translation component that translates captured audio data into a language comprehendible to a user.

7. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component facilitates collaborative note generation.

8. The system of claim 1, the collaboration component facilitates collaborative presentation generation.

9. The system of claim 1, each of the plurality of multi-modal devices includes a camera that captures video data and a microphone that captures audio data, the collaboration component dynamically renders the video data and the audio data based at least in part upon the context.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence (Al) component that infers an action that a user desires to be automatically performed based at least in part upon the context.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising indexing the subset of the data based at least in part upon the context.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

capturing an audio stream; and

converting the audio stream into textual data.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising translating an audio stream into a language comprehendible to a user.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising rendering the data to a remotely located user in real time.

11. A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising:

receiving data from a plurality of multi-modal communication devices; and

organizing a subset of the data based at least in part upon a context.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising journalizing the subset of data, the subset of data represents a plurality of records generated in a meeting between disparate users.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

selecting an image capture device from the plurality of multi-modal devices; and

dynamically capturing an image via the selected image capture device.

18. A computer-executable system that facilitates data management, comprising:

computer-implemented means for capturing multi-media data associated to an interaction between a plurality of users, the multi-media data includes video data and audio data;

computer-implemented means for aggregating a subset of the captured multi-media data;

computer-implemented means for analyzing the subset of the captured multi-media data; and

computer-implemented means for indexing the subset of the captured multi-media data based at least in part upon a context.

19. The computer-executable system of claim 18, the means for capturing comprises a plurality of multi-modal mobile communication devices each having an image capture device.

20. The computer-executable system of claim 19, further comprising means for automatically controlling each of the image capture devices based upon the context.