Conference participant location and device identification
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsMatthew William Fardig, Dane Hixson, Tobias Christensen, Shawn Sharp
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Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the conference participant, wherein the context data identifies a likely location of the conference participant; identifying, at the likely location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and contacting the conference participant via the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the receiving the indication comprises:
- identifying a professional role associated with the conference participant;
- and
- determining that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role;
- wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference;
- accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the conference participant;
- predicting, using the context data, a location of the conference participant;
- identifying, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant;
- and
- contacting the conference participant via the electronic device.
An information handling device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to:
- receive, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to receive the indication comprise instructions executable by the processor to:
- identify a professional role associated with the conference participant;
- and
- determine that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role;
- wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference;
- access context data associated with the conference participant
- predict, using the context data, a location of the conference participant;
- identify, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant;
- and
- contact the conference participant via the electronic device.
A non-transitory storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- code that receives, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the code that receives the indication comprises code that
- identifies a professional role associated with the conference participant;
- and
- determine that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role;
- wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference;
- code that accesses context data associated with the conference participant;
- code that predicts, using the context data, a location of the conference participant;
- code that identifies, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant;
- and
- code that contacts the conference participant via the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.