# US 10,374,815 B2 · Host a conference call

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- Number: US 10,374,815 B2
- Document ID: US10374815B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/521,984
- Filed: 2014-12-17
- Published: 2017-11-09
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2014-12-17
- Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Applicants: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Inventors: Kent E Biggs; Yolanda Rivas; Robert C Brooks; Richard E Hodges; Harold Merkel; James M Mann; Lorri L Jefferson; Derek Labron Everett; Thomas Bonola
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10374815B2

## CPC

- H04W 12/08: Access security
- H04L 12/18: for broadcast or conference {, e.g. multicast}
- H04L 12/1818: {Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties}
- H04L 12/1822: {Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission}
- H04L 63/107: {wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals}
- H04N 7/15: Conference systems
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to a conference call host. Examples include to establishing, by a first computing system, a first secure connection to a second computing system via a wireless network in response to receiving a secure connection request from the second computing system; the first computing system and the second computing system are in physical proximity to each other. Examples include to provide an operating system session to the second computing system through the secure connection while the first computing system and the second computing system remain in physical proximity to each other; the operating system is stored on and executable by the first computing system. Examples include to provide a connection to a conferencing platform to the second computing system via the first secure connection, the conference call at least among the first computing system, the second computing system, and a remote user.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for hosting a conference call comprising:
establishing, by a first computing system, a first secure connection to a second computing system via a wireless network in response to receiving a secure connection request from the second computing system, wherein the first computing system and the second computing system are in physical proximity to each other;
providing, by the first computing system, an operating system session to the second computing system through the secure connection while the first computing system and the second computing system remain in physical proximity to each other, wherein the operating system is stored on and executable by the first computing system; and
providing, by the first computing system, a connection to a conferencing platform to the second computing system via the first secure connection, the conference call at least among the first computing system, the second computing system, and a remote user.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the first computing system automatically initiates the conference call at a scheduled time.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the first computing system initiates the conference call in response to detecting the presence of a first person in proximity of the second computing system.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the second computing system hosts the conference call via the conferencing platform.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the conferencing platform is at least one of GoToMeeting®, WebEx®, Google® Hangouts, Skype®, Lync®, and HP® MyRooms.

### Claim 6

A system comprising:
an operating system session engine to provide an operating system session to a first device via a first wireless networking device when the first device is in physical proximity of the system;
an connection engine to provide a secure connection to a network to the first device while the first device is in physical proximity of the system;
a conference call initiation engine to establish a wireless connection with a conferencing platform and provide the connection with the conferencing platform to the first device via the first wireless networking device; and
an analysis engine to analyze a content of a conference call received from the first device and provide the analysis of the content to conference attendees,
wherein the conference attendees are at least among the first device, the system, and a remote user.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The system of claim 6, further comprising:
a hardware control engine to control wirelessly coupled hardware to provide hosting activities of the conference call in response to an instructions from the first device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7, wherein the hardware is at least one of a projector, a display, an audio system, a CD player, a touch panel, a camera, a video camera, a DVD/DVR player, a VCR player, a lighting system, a window covering, an HVAC system, a security system, a biometric sensor system, and a presence detection system, a digital pen, a digital board, a projected board, a webcam, a three-dimensional camera, and a heat imaging camera.

### Claim 9 (depends on 6)

The system of claim 6, further comprising:
a conference call capture engine to, in response to establishing a wireless connection with the conferencing platform, capture the content of the conference call.

### Claim 10 (depends on 6)

The system of claim 6, wherein in the analysis engine performs at least one of speech recognition, voice recognition, handwriting recognition, text analysis, and image recognition of the content of the conference call.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The system of claim 10, wherein a result of the analysis of the content of the conference call includes at least one of a closed captioning of the content of the conference call, a transcript a content of the conference call, a task lists according to the content of the conference call, a summary of the content of the conference call, and an annotated content of the conference call.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the annotated content of the conference call includes a at least one of an audio recording, a video recording, and the transcript of the content of the conference call tagged with at least one of an identity of a speaker, identity of a presenter, a time-stamp, and a screen capture.

### Claim 13

A first computing-system comprising:
a processing resource;
a memory resource;
a data store to store user data and an operating system; and
a first wireless networking device to wirelessly communicatively couple to a second computing system in physical proximity to the first computing system through a secure connection;
wherein the processing resource, the memory resource, the data store, and the wireless network device are electronically coupled via a system bus and are housed in a single case,
wherein an operating system session is provided to the second computing system through the secure connection between the second computing system and the first wireless networking device of the first computing system, and
wherein the operating system session automatically initiates a conference call with a remote user via a cellular network at a specific time and initiates hardware wirelessly coupled to the second computing system to host the conference call.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The first computing system of claim 13, wherein the operating system session captures audio and/or video content of the conference call.

### Claim 15 (depends on 13)

The first computing system of claim 13, wherein the video from the conference call may capture at least one of a white board in proximity of the host computing system, a digital pen, a digital shared workspace of the conference room, and a screen shot of first computing system.