System and method for electronic conference verification and management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11575506-B2
Application number	US-201916730402-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2019
Priority date	Dec 30, 2019
Publication date	Feb 7, 2023
Grant date	Feb 7, 2023

Abstract

Methods and systems for creating and managing electronic communications are disclosed. Exemplary methods can compress and encrypt meeting information and encode the compressed and encrypted meeting information into a uniform resource locator (URL) for transmission between one or more devices and a conferencing server.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic communication system comprising:
a conferencing system comprising a conferencing server; and
a participant device comprising a client and coupled to the conferencing system via a network;
wherein the conferencing system receives meeting information from the client, wherein the meeting information comprises one or more of special user permissions, participants, meeting start time and date, meeting end time and date, conference parameters, meeting title, and recurrence, and
wherein the conferencing server compresses, encrypts, and encodes the meeting information into a meeting uniform resource locator (URL);
wherein the conferencing server transmits the meeting URL to the participant device and deletes the meeting information after the meeting URL is created.

2. The electronic communication system of claim 1 , wherein the meeting URL is stored on the participant device.

3. The electronic communication system of claim 1 , wherein the meeting information is transmitted via a secure application programming interface (API) from the participant device to the conferencing system.

4. The electronic communication system of claim 1 , wherein the meeting URL is encoded using a private key and a public key.

5. The electronic communication system of claim 1 , wherein the conferencing server stores a public key and private key pair for encryption of the meeting information.

6. The electronic communication system of claim 1 , wherein a unique public/private key pair is associated with the client.

7. The electronic communication system of claim 6 , wherein the client does not store the unique public/private key pair.

8. The electronic communication system of claim 6 , wherein the client stores the unique public/private key pair.

9. The electronic communication system of claim 1 that further comprises a calendar application or browser configured to update the meeting information and send an updated meeting URL.

10. A cloud-based conferencing system comprising:
a conferencing server comprising a secure application programming interface (API),
wherein the conferencing server encrypts meeting information received by the API, wherein the meeting information comprises one or more of special user permissions, participants, meeting start time and date, meeting end time and date, conference parameters, meeting title, and recurrence,
wherein the conferencing server compresses, encodes, and encrypts the meeting-information into a meeting uniform resource locator (URL),
wherein the conferencing server causes transmission of the meeting URL to another device, and
wherein the conferencing server does not maintain the meeting information after the meeting URL is created.

11. The conferencing system of claim 10 , wherein the conferencing system generates a public key and a private key for encryption of the meeting information.

12. The conferencing system of claim 11 , wherein the public key and the private key are discarded once the URL is created.

13. The conferencing system of claim 10 , wherein the conferencing server prepends an unencrypted meeting identifier on the URL.

14. An electronic communication method comprising the steps of:
using a client on a participant device, sending meeting information to a conferencing server, wherein the meeting information comprises one or more of special user permissions, participants, meeting start time and date, meeting end time and date, conference parameters, meeting title, and recurrence;
using the conferencing server, compressing, encrypting, and encoding the meeting information into a meeting uniform resource locator (URL) and deleting the meeting information from the conference server after the meeting URL is created; and
transmitting by the conferencing server the meeting URL to the client.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising a step of sending the meeting URL to a plurality of clients.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the meeting information is encrypted using a private key and a public key.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the meeting URL comprises public key information.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the meeting URL comprises an appended signature.

Assignees

• Mitel Networks Corp

Inventors

• Kilburn Michael

Classifications

• H04L9/3252

  using DSA or related signature schemes, e.g. elliptic based signatures, ElGamal or Schnorr schemes · CPC title

• H04L67/146

  Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding · CPC title

• H04L63/0428

  wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload · CPC title

• H04L12/1818 Primary

  Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties · CPC title

• H04L65/403

  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