Automated meeting room

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9516022-B2
Application number	US-201314043331-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 1, 2013
Priority date	Oct 14, 2012
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

Methods and systems for automatic setup and initiation of meeting resources are described herein. A meeting room, area, or resource may be equipped with a camera or other proximity based sensor to determine when a user enters the meeting area. The camera may perform initial recognition of a user, e.g., based on facial or body recognition. The system may then authenticate the user as the meeting organizer using a second recognition technique, e.g., voice recognition. Based on the user authentication, the system may query the meeting organizer's calendar (or other resource) for meeting information, download an associated meeting presentation from cloud storage, initiate meeting (e.g., screen sharing) software, notify any missing attendees that the meeting has begun, and launch the presentation on a shared screen. The meeting organizer may then control the presentation using video and/or voice. All may be completed without the meeting organizer being required to touch anything.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;
determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;
determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;
responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;
obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;
providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;
starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;
notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sending a message to the missing attendee via the social network, and, when not so, sending a message to the missing attendee via text message; and
receiving non-touch user input from the meeting organizer to progress through the presentation.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the proximity-based sensor comprises a camera; and
wherein said facial recognition includes receiving video frames through the proximity-based sensor.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said facial recognition further includes comparing the video frames to face prints stored in a facial identification database.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said voice recognition includes:
receiving the user's voice through a microphone; and
recording the user's voice received through the microphone to generate audio frames.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said voice recognition further includes comparing the audio frames to voice prints stored in a voice identification database.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein required attendees are notified via one or more social networks.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein required attendees are notified by text message.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said non-touch user input comprises speech.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said non-touch user input comprises detection and recognition of physical movement by the meeting organizer.

10. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions; and
at least one memory storing the computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform:
detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;
determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;
determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;
responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, the identity of the user to the identity of the meeting organizer;
obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user as the meeting organizer;
providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;
starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;
notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sending a message to the missing attendee via the social network, and, when not so, sending a message to the missing attendee via text message; and
receiving non-touch user input from the meeting organizer to progress through the presentation.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the proximity-based sensor comprises a camera; and
wherein said facial recognition includes receiving video frames through the proximity-based sensor.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said facial recognition further includes comparing the video frames to face prints stored in a facial identification database.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said voice recognition includes:
receiving the user's voice through a microphone; and
recording the user's voice received through the microphone to generate audio frames.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein said voice recognition further includes comparing the audio frames to voice prints stored in a voice identification database.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein required attendees are notified via one or more social networks.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein required attendees are notified by email.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein required attendees are notified by text message.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said non-touch user input comprises speech.

19. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said non-touch user input comprises detection and recognition of physical movement by the meeting organizer.

20. One or more tangible computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, configure a system to perform:
detecting a physical presence of a user in a predetermined meeting area, said detection using a proximity-based sensor;
determining an identity of the user based on the proximity-based sensor by facial recognition;
determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer;
responsive to determining that the identity of the user corresponds to an identity of a meeting organizer, authenticating, by voice recognition, using a credential service on a networked computer system, an identity of the user as a meeting organizer, said authenticating based on voice recognition;
obtaining, using the credential service on the networked computer system, user credentials associated with the user responsive to authenticating the identity of the user as the meeting organizer;
providing the user credentials to a computer located in the predetermined meeting area to automatically log the user in to the computer;
starting one or more meeting resources used to present a presentation associated with the meeting organizer based on the authentication of the user, one of said resources comprising the computer located in the predetermined meeting area used to present the presentation;
notifying any required meeting attendees determined not to be in attendance, said notifying based on a determination of whether each missing required meeting attendee is logged in to a social network and, when so, sendin

Assignees

• Citrix Systems Inc
• Getgo Inc

Inventors

• Borzycki Andrew
• Deva Mallikharjuna Reddy
• Bissett Nick
• Roychoudhry Anil
• Duursma Martin

Classifications

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• A63F13/213

  comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells (A63F13/219 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06Q10/06

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• G06F21/32

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints · CPC title

• H04L63/0861 Primary

  using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231) · CPC title