Dynamically controlling foreground applications during screen sharing conferences

A computer program product for managing information during a web conference, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media having computer readable program code collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the computer readable program code being executed by a processor of a computer system to cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

• collecting and formatting meeting application information at a processor of a computing device having a screen being shared with attendees of the web conference;
• collecting and formatting to-be-popup application information at the processor;
• analyzing, by the processor, an urgency of the to-be-popup application information and a correlation between the to-be-popup application information and the meeting application information;
• determining, by the processor, to share the to-be-popup application information with a user of the computing device and with the attendees based on results of the analyzing;
• and
• sharing the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and one or more of the attendees in accordance with affirmative results of the determining with respect to the user and the one or more of the attendees, wherein:
• the computer-implemented method further comprises finding, from a base model, a hyperplane between not-to-be-shared popup windows and shared information of the meeting application and using the hyperplane to generate a popup queue file in which collected and formatted to-be-popup application information is stored, the sharing of the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees comprises determining how and when to share the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees, and
• the determining of how and when to share the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees comprises determining to switch a granularity of a screen, and
• in an event a determination is made to switch the granularity of the screen, the computer-implemented method further comprises determining a sharing area of the screen with a background reserved condition being true and sequentially updating a coms-module, which is based on the base model, with an optimal combination of to-be-popup applications and the meeting application with a designated sharing granularity to form the coms-module for subsequent usage and engaging a scheduler and management module (SMM) to use the coms-module for the subsequent usage.

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor;
• and one or more computer readable storage media coupled to the processor, the one or more computer readable storage media collectively containing instructions that are executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method comprising:
• collecting and formatting meeting application information at a processor of a computing device having a screen being shared with attendees of the web conference;
• collecting and formatting to-be-popup application information at the processor;
• analyzing, by the processor, an urgency of the to-be-popup application information and a correlation between the to-be-popup application information and the meeting application information;
• determining, by the processor, to share the to-be-popup application information with a user of the computing device and with the attendees based on results of the analyzing;
• and
• sharing the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and one or more of the attendees in accordance with affirmative results of the determining with respect to the user and the one or more of the attendees, wherein:
• the computer-implemented method further comprises finding, from a base model, a hyperplane between not-to-be-shared popup windows and shared information of the meeting application and using the hyperplane to generate a popup queue file in which collected and formatted to-be-popup application information is stored,
• the sharing of the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees comprises determining how and when to share the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees, and
• the determining of how and when to share the to-be-popup application information with the user of the computing device and the attendees comprises determining to switch a granularity of a screen, and
• in an event a determination is made to switch the granularity of the screen, the computer-implemented method further comprises determining a sharing area of the screen with a background reserved condition being true and sequentially updating a coms-module, which is based on the base model, with an optimal combination of to-be-popup applications and the meeting application with a designated sharing granularity to form the coms-module for subsequent usage and engaging a scheduler and management module (SMM) to use the coms-module for the subsequent usage.