Notebook driven accumulation of meeting documentation and notations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9449303-B2
Application number	US-201213353338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2012
Priority date	Jan 19, 2012
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

A notebook component within a note-taking application is utilized as a centralized mechanism for recording notations and providing documentation related to a particular meeting. The meeting participants are provided with centralized access to the notebook component and thus are able to update the notebook record of the meeting collaboratively and in real time. In addition to user-driven updates, updates may also be generated on an automatic or semi-automatic basis. Updates may be made before, during or after the actual meeting. Updates may originate from an application data source outside of the note-taking application itself.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for conducting a real-time communication session, the method comprising:
generating a meeting notification that includes at least an indication of invited attendees;
creating, for the meeting, a specialized meeting notebook component within a first application environment, the specialized meeting notebook component including an association with the meeting and a shared notation area, the shared notation area of the specialized meeting notebook component facilitating an accumulation of meeting notations in relation to the meeting;
automatically providing, to each of the invited attendees, an indication that the specialized meeting notebook component has been created along with an indication as to how the specialized meeting notebook component is accessed by the invited attendees;
automatically incorporating, into the specialized meeting notebook component, an item of information obtained from a second application environment that is outside of the first application environment; and
creating the meeting by establishing a real-time communication session between the attendees, the real-time communication session comprising real-time communications sent between the attendees based on detected user inputs, and the real-time communication session including a user interface component that receives meeting notations into a shared notation area of the specialized meeting notebook component, the shared notation area receiving the meeting notations individually from each of the attendees of the meeting such that the record of the meeting is created collaboratively by the attendees during the real-time communication session.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication as to how the specialized meeting notebook component is accessed by the invited attendees comprises a selectable access link that, when actuated by one of the invited attendees, navigates the invited attendee to the specialized meeting notebook component.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first application environment comprises a note-taking application and the second application environment comprises an online meeting or scheduling application.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving meeting notations further comprises receiving meeting notations after the meeting has occurred.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving meeting notations comprises receiving meeting notations before the meeting has occurred.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving meeting notations comprises receiving during the meeting and after the meeting has occurred.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the item of information at least comprises non-textual media content.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically incorporating an item of information comprises:
identifying a plurality of items of information from a plurality of different sources that external to the first application environment; and
incorporating the plurality of items of information into the specialized meeting notebook component.

9. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising automatically incorporating, into the specialized meeting notebook component, an indication of when at least one of said attendees joined the particular meeting event.

10. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising automatically incorporating, into the specialized meeting notebook component, an indication of when at least one of said attendees posted a notation into the shared notation area.

11. A computing system comprising:
a processor; and
a note-taking application configured to receive an indication of a particular meeting event, the note-taking application comprising:
a meeting notebook creation component configured to create a meeting notebook component based on the indication of the particular meeting event, the meeting notebook component being associated with the particular meeting event; and
a user interface component configured to generate a user interface display that displays the meeting notebook component, the user interface display comprising:
a shared notation area configured to receive meeting notations from a plurality of users identified as attendees of the particular meeting event so as to collaboratively create a record of the particular meeting event, wherein the plurality of users identified as attendees are identified at least in part by a list of users included in the indication of a particular meeting event, and wherein the shared notation area is configured to display an attribution indicating which user added which content;
a non-shared notation area into which meeting notations are posted by one of the plural of users but not shared with other of the plurality of users; and
a timeline view that indicates when at least one of attendees joined the particular meeting event; and

a real-time communication system configured to create the meeting by establishing a real-time communication session between the attendees, the real-time communication session comprising real-time communications sent between the attendees based on detected user inputs.

12. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the shared notation area is accessible from the note-taking application and a set of applications outside of the note-taking application.

13. The computing system of claim 12 , wherein each application in the set of applications is configured to edit the meeting notebook component.

14. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the note-taking application is configured to collaboratively create the record of the particular meeting event in real time by accepting meeting notations posted by the plurality of users in essentially real time.

15. The computing system of claim 14 , wherein accepting the meeting notations posted by the plurality of users further comprises accepting at least one meeting notation posted by a user before occurrence of the meeting event.

16. The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the note-taking application is configured to receive indications of meeting events from a plurality of different applications and to create a corresponding meeting notebook component for each of the meeting events.

17. A computer-implemented method for conducting a real-time communication session, the method comprising:
generating a meeting notification that includes at least an indication of invited attendees for the meeting;
creating a specialized meeting notebook component for the ing, the specialized meeting notebook component including an association with the meeting and a shared notation area for accumulation of meeting notations from the invited attendees in relation to the meeting to collaboratively create a record of the meeting;
automatically providing, to each of the invited attendees, an indication that the specialized meeting notebook component has been created along with an indication as to how the specialized meeting notebook component is accessed by the invited attendees;
creating the meeting by establishing a real-time communication session between the attendees, the real-time communication session comprising real-time communications sent between the attendees based on detected user inputs, and the real-time communication session including a user interface component that receives meeting notations into a shared notation area of the specialized meeting notebook component, the shared notation area receiving the meeting notations individually from each of the attendees of the meeting such that the record of the meeting is created collaboratively by the attendees during the real-time communicat

Assignees

• Underhill Thomas
• Wessling Cynthia
• Godiyal Apeksha
• Bilal Syed Mustafa
• Lin Hong
• Stott Nathaniel
• Duze Charles
• Tsang Po-Yan
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Underhill Thomas
• Wessling Cynthia
• Godiyal Apeksha
• Bilal Syed Mustafa
• Lin Hong
• Stott Nathaniel
• Duze Charles
• Tsang Po-Yan

Classifications

• G06Q10/1093

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• H04L12/1818

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

• G06Q10/109

  Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting · CPC title

• G06Q10/10 Primary

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06Q10/1095

  Physics · mapped topic