Meeting management system including automated equipment setup

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9998503-B2
Application number	US-201514943125-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2015
Priority date	Apr 29, 2011
Publication date	Jun 12, 2018
Grant date	Jun 12, 2018

Abstract

A system includes at least one processor, a memory, at least one data storage device, at least one communication interface, and at least one program of instructions stored in the memory and executable in the processor. The program of instructions accepts information defining a presentation type of meeting, the presentation type of meeting being associated with preset resources including a presentation capture device, displays at least one presentation preset parameter based on the presentation type of meeting, receives presentation preset information from the at least one displayed presentation preset parameter, the presentation preset information including a start time, an end time, and shared documentation, automatically determines a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received presentation preset information, notify a conference initiator of the room, and sends at least one command to control at least one of the associated preset resources in response to the start time and the end time. The at least one presentation preset parameter includes a recording profile, the presentation preset information includes a preconfigured recording profile, the preconfigured recording profile includes at least one AV workflow function, the at least one AV workflow function includes an encoding profile, and the encoding profile includes an audio CODEC preset parameter, an audio channels preset parameter, a sampling frequency preset parameter and an audio bitrate preset parameter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
(a) at least one processor;
(b) a memory;
(c) at least one data storage device operably associated with the memory and the at least one processor;
(d) at least one communication interface operably associated with the at least one processor and memory, the at least one communication interface being configured to enable communication between the information handling system and one or more user communication devices; and
(e) at least one program of instructions stored in the memory and being executable in the processor, the program of instructions being operable to:
(i) accept information defining a presentation type of meeting, the presentation type of meeting being associated with preset resources including a presentation capture device,
(ii) display at least one presentation preset parameter based on the presentation type of meeting,
(iii) receive presentation preset information from the at least one displayed presentation preset parameter, the presentation preset information including a start time, an end time, and shared documentation,
(iv) automatically determine a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received presentation preset information,
(v) notify a conference initiator of the room, and
(vi) send at least one command to control at least one of the associated preset resources in response to the start time and the end time,
wherein the at least one presentation preset parameter includes a recording profile, the presentation preset information includes a preconfigured recording profile, the preconfigured recording profile includes at least one AV workflow function, the at least one AV workflow function includes an encoding profile, the encoding profile includes an audio CODEC preset parameter, an audio channels preset parameter, a sampling frequency preset parameter and an audio bitrate preset parameter, and the at least one program of instructions operable to send the at least one command includes instructions to:

(a) power on/off the presentation capture device, and
(b) initiate/end recording for live streaming, and
(c) initiate/end uploading for live streaming.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the preset resources include a content source coupled to a presentation capture device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one program of instructions operable to send the at least one command includes instructions to:
(a) power on/off the content source and content sink, and
(b) initiate the content source to begin sending shared documentation to the presentation capture device.

4. A system, comprising:
(a) at least one processor;
(b) a memory;
(c) at least one data storage device operably associated with the memory and the at least one processor;
(d) at least one communication interface operably associated with the at least one processor and memory, the at least one communication interface being configured to enable communication between the information handling system and one or more user communication devices; and
(e) at least one program of instructions stored in the memory and being executable in the processor, the program of instructions being operable to:
(i) accept information defining a presentation type of meeting, the presentation type of meeting being associated with preset resources including a presentation capture device,
(ii) display at least one presentation preset parameter based on the presentation type of meeting,
(iii) receive presentation preset information from the at least one displayed presentation preset parameter, the presentation preset information including a start time, an end time, and shared documentation,
(iv) automatically determine a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received presentation preset information,
(v) notify a conference initiator of the room, and
(vi) send at least one command to control at least one of the associated preset resources in response to the start time and the end time,
wherein the at least one presentation preset parameter includes a recording profile, the presentation preset information includes a preconfigured recording profile, the preconfigured recording profile includes at least one AV workflow function, the at least one AV workflow function includes an encoding profile, the encoding profile includes an audio CODEC preset parameter, an audio channels preset parameter, a sampling frequency preset parameter and an audio bitrate preset parameter, and the at least one AV workflow function comprises a post-processing profile.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the post-processing profile comprises at least one watermark preset parameter.

6. A system, comprising:
(a) at least one processor;
(b) a memory;
(c) at least one data storage device operably associated with the memory and the at least one processor;
(d) at least one communication interface operably associated with the at least one processor and memory, the at least one communication interface being configured to enable communication between the information handling system and one or more user communication devices; and
(e) at least one program of instructions stored in the memory and being executable in the processor, the program of instructions being operable to:
(i) accept information defining a presentation type of meeting, the presentation type of meeting being associated with preset resources including a presentation capture device,
(ii) display at least one presentation preset parameter based on the presentation type of meeting,
(iii) receive presentation preset information from the at least one displayed presentation preset parameter, the presentation preset information including a start time, an end time, and shared documentation,
(iv) automatically determine a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received presentation preset information,
(v) notify a conference initiator of the room, and
(vi) send at least one command to control at least one of the associated preset resources in response to the start time and the end time,
wherein the at least one presentation preset parameter includes a recording profile, the presentation preset information includes a preconfigured recording profile, the preconfigured recording profile includes at least one AV workflow function, the at least one AV workflow function includes an encoding profile, the encoding profile includes an audio CODEC preset parameter, an audio channels preset parameter, a sampling frequency preset parameter and an audio bitrate preset parameter, and the encoding profile comprises at least one container format preset parameter.

Assignees

• Crestron Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Seferian Ara
• Hanson Adam
• Leerentveld Toine
• Jackson Daniel

Classifications

• H04N7/147

  Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q) · CPC title

• H04N7/155

  involving storage of or access to video conference sessions (tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831) · 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

• H04N7/15

  Conference systems · 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