METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LOCATING AN APPLICATION DURING A COLLABORATION SESSION

• US 20070294350A1
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kumar, Manish, Chen, Weidong, Zhu, Lei, Zhu, Min
• Granted Patent: US 8,117,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include requesting an expert during a collaboration session; determining a subject matter of the collaboration session; detecting a potential participant to serve as the expert; and inviting the potential participant to join the collaboration session.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

requesting an application during a collaboration session;

determining a subject matter of the collaboration session;

detecting a potential application for utilization within the collaboration session; and

including the application for use by a participant during the collaboration session.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising detecting the subject matter based on content shared during the collaboration session.

3. The method according to claim 2 wherein detecting the potential application is based on the content shard during the collaboration session.

4. The method according to claim 1 further comprising receiving the subject matter from a participant of the collaboration session.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising initiating the collaboration session.

6. The method according to claim 1 further comprising identifying a status of the potential application.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the status is one of available, unavailable, and undetermined.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the application is one of a word processor, an email program, a graphics program, an audio program, and a video program.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein detecting the potential application is based on detecting the subject matter.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the requesting is performed by a presenter participant.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein the requesting is performed by an attendee participant.

12. A system, comprising:

a storage module configured to store a record containing an attribute associated with a potential expert in a collaboration session;

a content detection module configured to detect a subject matter corresponding to the collaboration session; and

a rating manager module configured to rank a plurality of applications for use during the collaboration session based on the subject matter.

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

14. The system according to claim 12 further comprising a participant recognition module configured to detect a participant during the collaboration session.

15. The system according to claim 12 wherein the content detection module further comprises determining the subject matter from content exchanged during the collaboration session.

16. A system comprising:

means for requesting an application during a collaboration session;

means for determining a subject matter of the collaboration session;

means for detecting a potential application for utilization within the collaboration session; and

means for including the application for use by a participant during the collaboration session.

17. The system according to claim 16 wherein the means for determining includes a content recognition module configured to detect the subject matter of the collaboration session.

18. The system according to claim 16 wherein the means for detecting includes a storage module configured to store an attribute of the potential participant.