Stimulus-based collaborative functions for communication systems
US12335326B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 12, 2021 |
| Grant date | Jun 17, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 12, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L65/403
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A communication system with enhanced collaboration functionality. During operations of the new communication system, users (e.g., online meeting, conference, call, or presentation attendees or participants operating a client device in communication via a communications network) join a collaboration session via their preferred collaboration application. One of the attendees wants to get their document or other content seen, so they share their screen and start to present their content. With the new communication system, an attendee chooses to initiate a collaboration option (e.g., clicking a button in a user interface such as “Create a conference call” button), while identifying or highlighting a subset or portion of the presented content as relevant to the new collaboration event. Attendees are added to an ad hoc conference meeting (or other new or spawned collaboration event), and the content that is originally asserted as the topic of conversation is displayed in the conferencing apparatus.
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