Scoping the lifetime of personal devices connected to communal computing devices

US11216238B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• John C. Gordon · Newcastle, US
• Corey Joseph Loman · Seattle, US
• Nabil Fates · Redmond, US
• Steven Mathew Ilami · Seattle, US
• Samuel David Adams · Albuquerque, US
• Peter Gregory Davis · Kirkland, US
• Raju Jain · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2022
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/306
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A communal computing device, like an interactive digital whiteboard, can detect the start and end of user sessions with the device. When a communal computing device detects the end of a user session, the it can determine if a personal device that was connected at the start of the user session or during the user session was also connected at the end of the user session. If so, the device can initiate actions based on the session start or end signals such as, but not limited to, transmitting a message to an organizer of a meeting scheduled during the time of the user session, transmitting a message to a participant of a meeting scheduled during the time of the user session, transmitting a message to an administrator, or generating a notification, such as a user interface reminding a user to take their personal device.