Event scheduling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9680775-B2
Application number	US-201414279242-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2014
Priority date	Jan 21, 2004
Publication date	Jun 13, 2017
Grant date	Jun 13, 2017

Abstract

In one aspect, the invention is a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed by the processor, cause that processor to schedule a network-based media event; and to invite an attendee to attend the network-based media event. Other aspects of the invention includes a process and a method.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method executed on a host computing device comprising:
scheduling an online meeting facilitated by a server device, the scheduling including identification of a scheduled time of the meeting, the server device to couple the host computing device and an attendee client computing device in the meeting;
receiving, at the host computing device from the server device, executable program code to, when executed, cause the host computing device to:
compare a system time to the scheduled time of the meeting; and
automatically launch, without user intervention, a connection to the server device for the meeting and an Internet browser on the host computing device for presentation of the meeting, when a predetermined difference between the system time and the scheduled time of the meeting is reached,
wherein the executable program code automatically launches the Internet browser when the Internet browser is not already running on the host computing device;

transmitting, by the host computing device, media data to the server device for the meeting;
transmitting, by the host computing device, a poll during the meeting for automatic display on the attendee computing device coupled to the meeting; and
receiving, at the host computing device, a poll response from the attendee computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing a user interface that allows a user to select from among a slideshow, the poll, and a whiteboard;
receiving a user selection of one of the slideshow and the whiteboard; and
transmitting the one of the slideshow and the whiteboard to the meeting.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein transmitting the whiteboard comprises transmitting data usable to depict markings on a representation of a whiteboard.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the media data and transmitting the poll comprises transmitting the media data and the poll for simultaneous display on the attendee computing device during the meeting.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein transmitting the media data and the poll comprises transmitting the media data and the poll for display in a same window.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising connecting the host computing device to a cellular telephone; and transmitting audio only to the cellular telephone.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media data is transmitted from the host computing device to the attendee computing device by the server device on an intranet.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising uploading a slideshow presentation to the server device prior to establishing the meeting; and securing the slideshow presentation from access by the attendee computing device until the host computing device indicates the slideshow presentation should be made accessible.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein uploading the slideshow presentation comprises receiving a user indication of data representative of a slideshow presentation and transmitting the data to the server device.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein a user defines a question and answers for the poll during scheduling.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein scheduling the meeting comprises receiving an indication of a desired meeting time from a user and transmitting the indication of the desired meeting time to the attendee computing device.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media data comprises at least one of slideshow data and live video data.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the poll comprises transmitting an indication of a poll question.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the host computing device establishes the meeting by connecting to a server device configured to distribute the media data from the host computing device to the attendee computing device.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor of a host computing device to:
schedule an online meeting facilitated by a server device, the scheduling including identifying a scheduled time of the meeting, the server device to couple an attendee client computing device to the meeting;
receive, from the server device, additional executable program code to, when executed by the processor, cause the host computing device to:
compare a system time to the scheduled time of the meeting; and
automatically launch, without user intervention, a connection to the server device for the meeting and an Internet browser on the host computing device for presentation of the meeting, when a predetermined difference between the system time and the scheduled time is reached,
wherein the executable program code automatically launches the Internet browser when the Internet browser is not already running on the host computing device;

transmit media data to a plurality of computing devices communicatively coupled to the meeting;
provide a user interface that allows a user to select from among a slideshow, a poll, and a whiteboard;
receive a user selection of one of the slideshow, the poll, and the whiteboard; and
transmit the one of the slideshow, the poll, and the whiteboard to the plurality of computing devices.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the user selection is for the poll, wherein transmitting the poll comprises transmitting the poll for automatic display on the plurality of computing devices, and wherein the program code causes the processor to receive poll responses from the plurality of computing devices.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein transmitting the media data and transmitting the poll comprises transmitting the media data and the poll for simultaneous display on the plurality of computing devices.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein transmitting the media data and the poll comprises transmitting the media data and the poll for display in a same window on each computing device.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein one of the plurality of computing devices is a cellular telephone, and wherein transmitting media data comprises transmitting audio only to the cellular telephone.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the media data is transmitted to the plurality of computing devices by the server device on an intranet.

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the program code causes the processor to upload a slideshow presentation to the server device prior to the meeting; and secure the slideshow presentation from access by the plurality of computing devices until the host computing device indicates the slideshow presentation should be made accessible.

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the user defines a question and answers for the poll during scheduling.

23. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising program code configured to cause the processor to:
receive a message from a first computing device requesting scheduling of a meeting event, the message including a scheduled time of the meeting;
send an invite to a second computing device to attend the meeting;
receive a response to the message from the second computing device agreeing to attend the meeting;
transmitting to the second computing device executable program code configured to:

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Sirota Peter
• Johnson Don
• Tumuluru Sudheer

Classifications

• G06Q10/1093 Primary

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• H04L67/325

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06Q10/109

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