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Attribute visualization of attendees to an electronic meeting

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-03-08
IBM CORP
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Among the chief challenges to online conferences is maintaining the attention and interaction of all conference attendees.
Unfortunately, access to applications other than the online conferencing client often distracts.
For example, diplomas and awards that hang in one's office do not have suitable online substitutes shown in connection with online conferencing environments.
In addition, a set of attendee attributes, e.g. concerning an attendee's national origin or affiliations with relevant societies and groups is not available in online conferencing environments.

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[0024]FIG. 1 is provided as an exemplary diagram of data processing environments in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented. It should be appreciated that FIG. 1 is only exemplary and is not intended to assert or imply any limitation with regard to the environments in which aspects or embodiments of the present invention may be implemented. Many modifications to the depicted environment may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

[0025] With reference now to the figures, FIG. 1 depicts a pictorial representation of a network of data processing systems in which aspects of the present invention may be implemented. Network data processing system 100 is a network of computers in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented. Network data processing system 100 contains a network 102, which is the medium used to provide communications links between various devices and computers connected together within network da...

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A server publishes a poll to one or more attendee clients to an electronic conference. The poll permits each attendee to select one of several choices as the vote of the respective attendee. Initially an attendee may have a default choice assigned to him, for example, undecided. The server may show a hypertext page that includes an image or persona icon of the attendee located within a panel that has the current vote that an attendee has chosen or, by default, been assigned.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention generally relates to visually assisted teleconferences, and more specifically to imaging the kind and extent of user inputs to a teleconference. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] There is an abundance of online conferencing tools. Some tools permit a visual representation of a user to be displayed, for example, a photo, on the client workstations of the user's peers that attend the electronic meeting. Often, the user's icon or persona is exchanged with peers over high-speed packet communications which now support even high-quality voice. Online conferencing, at a minimum, requires visibility among at least two people, the inputs of at least one such attendee to the online conference, wherein those inputs may be audio and video, among others. [0005] Among the chief challenges to online conferences is maintaining the attention and interaction of all conference attendees. Attentive a...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16G06F3/00G06F17/00
CPCG06Q10/10H04L12/1813H04L65/4038H04N7/15H04L65/403H04L29/06027H04L65/1101
Inventor BAGLEY, ELIZABETHNESBITT, PAMELAROSS, DAVIDTRAVIS, AMYULLMANN, LORIN
Owner IBM CORP