US 11,601,485 B2Granted

Instant conferencing system

AssigneeIntuit Inc.

InventorsAmir Eftekhari, Roger C. Meike, Radya Cherkaoui

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Abstract

A method including receiving, at a platform and from a first user using a first user device, selection of a uniform resource indicator (URI) unique to a second user using a second user device. The method also includes generating, automatically by the platform in response to receiving the URI, a conference session unique to the first user and the second user. The method also includes transmitting, automatically by the platform, a message to the second user, the message indicating that the conference session is initiated. The method also includes receiving, by the platform, an indication from the second user device that the second user joins the conference session. The method also includes joining, automatically by the platform, the first user device and the second user device in the conference session.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a platform and from a first user using a first user device, selection of a uniform resource indicator (URI) unique to a second user using a second user device;
generating, automatically by the platform in response to receiving the URI, a conference session unique to the first user and the second user;
transmitting, automatically by the platform, a message to the second user, the message indicating that the conference session is initiated;
receiving, by the platform, an indication from the second user device that the second user joins the conference session;
transmitting, after receiving the indication from the second user device, a prompt to the first user device, wherein the prompt requests the first user to confirm that the first user joins the conference session;
and
joining, automatically by the platform and after receiving an affirmative response to the prompt, the first user device and the second user device in the conference session.

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A system comprising:

a server;
a data repository in communication with the server and storing:
a uniform resource indicator (URI) unique to a second user operating a second user device, wherein a first user operating a first user device is different than the second user;
computer readable program code for generating a plurality of conference sessions, including a conference session unique to the first user and the second user;
a message indicating that the conference session is initiated;
an indication from the second user device of the second user that the second user joins the conference session;
a platform executable by the server to:
receive from the first user device a selection of the URI;
generate, in response to receiving the selection of the URI, the conference session;
transmit the message to the second user;
receive the indication;
transmit, after receiving the indication from the second user device, a prompt to the first user device, wherein the prompt requests the first user to confirm that the first user joins the conference session;
and
join, after receiving an affirmative response to the prompt, the first user device and the second user device in the conference session.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/334,627Filed 28 May 2021
Published: US 2022/0385704 A11 Dec 2022
Granted: 7 Mar 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 12/1822
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants,…
H04L 65/403
Support for services or applications: arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences
H04L 65/1069
Session management: session establishment or de-establishment
H04L 67/146
Session management: markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding