System and method for effective communication in online collaboration
AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)
InventorsSnehal Desai, Stacy Callaway Huggar, Noe Alberto Martinez, Kristina Suniga-Cabrera
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Abstract
A system for managing an online meeting includes one or more hardware processors. The system also includes a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors to perform actions. The actions include monitoring participants during the online meeting. The actions also include adjusting interaction between a least a subset of the participants via one or more interfaces based on the monitoring.
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A system for managing an online meeting, comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- and
- a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors to perform actions comprising:
- monitoring participants during the online meeting;
- and
- adjusting interaction between the participants via user interfaces on respective computing devices of the participants based on the monitoring, wherein adjusting the interaction comprises automatically designating a subset of the participants as a side bar conversation on the user interfaces to indicate the side bar conversation between the subset of the participants during the online meeting and designating a remainder of the participants as a main conversation on the user interfaces to indicate the main conversation between the remainder of the participants on the user interfaces;
- and
- designating a participant in the main conversation as a current speaker based on analysis of imagery indicating certain body movements or positioning of the participant, based on a detected threshold of discernable words spoken by the participant, or a combination thereof;
- and
- altering a queue for the remainder of the participants to speak in the main conversation during the online meeting, wherein positioning within the queue is based on participant preferences, and the participant preferences comprises a personality type or a numerical ranking on a scale of a desired participation level.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- monitoring, via a processor, participants during an online meeting;
- adjusting, via the processor, interaction between a subset of the participants, based on the monitoring, by automatically designating the subset of the participants as a side bar conversation by altering user interfaces on respective computing devices of the participants to indicate the side bar conversation between the subset of the participants during the online meeting and designating a remainder of the participants as a main conversation on the user interfaces to indicate the main conversation between the remainder of the participants on the user interfaces;
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- altering a queue for the remainder of the participants to speak in the main conversation during the online meeting, wherein positioning within the queue is based on participant preferences, and the participant preferences comprises a personality type.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media encoding one or more processor-executable routines, wherein the one or more routines, when executed by a processor, cause acts to be performed comprising:
- monitoring participants during an online meeting;
- adjusting interaction between a subset of the participants, based on the monitoring, by automatically designating the subset of the participants as a side bar conversation by altering user interfaces on respective computing devices of the participants to indicate the side bar conversation between the subset of the participants during the online meeting and designating a remainder of the participants as a main conversation on the user interfaces to indicate the main conversation between the remainder of the participants on the user interfaces;
- and
- altering a queue for the remainder of the participants to speak in the main conversation during the online meeting, wherein positioning within the queue is based on participant preferences, and the participant preferences comprises a numerical ranking on a scale of a desired participation level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.