Adding recorded content to an interactive timeline of a teleconference session

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10193940-B2
Application number	US-201715426992-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2017
Priority date	Feb 7, 2017
Publication date	Jan 29, 2019
Grant date	Jan 29, 2019

Abstract

Described herein is a system that generates and displays an interactive timeline for a teleconference session, where the interactive timeline includes a representation of supplemental recorded content that has been added after a live viewing of the teleconference session has ended. The system can inject the supplemental recorded content into previously recorded content or append the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline. Moreover, the system can cause the supplemental recorded content to subsequently be displayed in one of multiple different views. Furthermore, the system can generate and/or distribute a notification of the supplemental recorded content so that participants to the teleconference session can be made aware of additional activity contributed to the teleconference session (e.g., by someone who missed the live viewing of the teleconference session).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
one or more processing units; and
a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the one or more processing units to:
display an interactive timeline associated with previously recorded content of a teleconference session;
receive first input to add content to the interactive timeline at a position associated with an interactive timeline cursor;
based at least in part on receiving the first input, determining supplemental recorded content;
receive second input that indicates that the supplemental recorded content is to be added to the interactive timeline by one of (i) injecting the supplemental recorded content into the previously recorded content of the teleconference session thereby splitting the previously recorded content of the teleconference session at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor, or (ii) appending the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor; and
send data to add the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline based at least in part on the second input.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second input indicates that the supplemental recorded content is to be added to the interactive timeline by injecting the supplemental recorded content into the previously recorded content of the teleconference session, and wherein injecting the supplemental recorded content into the previously recorded content extends a duration of the teleconference session.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second input indicates that the supplemental recorded content is to be added to the interactive timeline by appending the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor, and wherein appending the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor does not split the previously recorded content of the teleconference session at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second input indicates that the supplemental recorded content is to be added to the interactive timeline by appending the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor, and wherein the supplemental recorded content is configured for optional viewing in association with the previously recorded content based on selection of a corresponding representation on the interactive timeline.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to determine the supplemental recorded content by recording one of: video content of a user, audio content of a user, or audio content of a user along with file content displayed on a display screen.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to add a corresponding representation of the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the position associated with the interactive timeline cursor.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to:
display and playback the previously recorded content; and
pause the previously recorded content based at least in part on receiving the first input so the content to be added to the interactive timeline can be recorded.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second input is enabled based at least in part on credentials of a user that provides the second input.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to receive third input selecting an option related to a view of the supplemental recorded content with respect to the previously recorded content.

10. A system comprising:
one or more processing units; and
a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the one or more processing units to:
cause an interactive timeline associated with previously recorded content of a teleconference session to be displayed;
cause the previously recorded content of the teleconference session to be displayed;
receive a request to add supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at a specified position by one of (i) injecting the supplemental recorded content into the previously recorded content of the teleconference session thereby splitting the previously recorded content of the teleconference session at the specified position, or (ii) appending the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the specified position; and

add, based at least in part on the request, the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the specified position.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to:
generate a notification for an object associated with the teleconference session, the notification to indicate that the supplemental recorded content has been added to the interactive timeline; and
add the notification to the object associated with the teleconference session, wherein the object comprises an end-of-session object embedded in a chat application or a calendar application.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to add a corresponding representation of the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the specified position.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the supplemental recorded content is configured for optional viewing in association with the previously recorded content based on selection of the corresponding representation on the interactive timeline.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the one or more processing units to:
receive another request to view the supplemental recorded content of the teleconference session;
identify another position on the interactive timeline that is associated with a predetermined amount of time that immediately precedes the specified position;
cause the previously recorded content, starting at the other position, to be displayed; and
subsequently cause the supplemental recorded content to be displayed.

15. A method comprising:
causing an interactive timeline associated with previously recorded content of a teleconference session to be displayed;
receiving, from a first client computing device, a request to add supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at a specified position;
adding, based at least in part on the request, the supplemental recorded content and a corresponding representation of the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline at the specified position;
receiving, from a second client computing device, another request to view the supplemental recorded content; and
causing the supplemental recorded content to be displayed in a view configured based at least in part on a type of the previously recorded content associated with the specified position.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the type of the previously recorded content associated with the specified position comprises people content and the view comprises an overlay view in which the supplemental recorded content is played back in the foreground

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Rodriguez Jose A
• Faulkner Jason Thomas
• Baker Casey
• Arora Sonu
• Welsh Christopher
• Morrison Kevin D

Classifications

• H04L65/1089

  by adding media; by removing media · CPC title

• H04L65/403 Primary

  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 title

• H04L65/4015

  where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference · CPC title