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US 12,418,431 B2Granted
Scheduled conference recording
AssigneeMitel Networks Corporation
InventorsAnilkumar Yalawarmath, Logendra Naidoo
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Abstract
Systems and methods for virtual meetings allow a recipient of a request to attend a meeting alternate options to: not attend the meeting but record all or part(s) of the meeting, or to attend the meeting and record all or part(s) of the meeting. In an embodiment, a conferencing system comprising a conferencing server is in communication with a participant device. The conferencing server sends the participant device a meeting request which includes recording options available to the recipient. The communication may include metadata that assists the conferencing system to identify the part(s) of the meeting the recipient wishes to be recorded.
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An electronic communication system comprising:
- a conferencing system comprising a conferencing server, a recording server in communication with the conferencing server, and a recording database;
- a plurality of participant devices coupled to the conferencing server;
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- an analysis engine in communication with the recording server and configured to receive input from the recording server to create analysis results;
- wherein the conferencing system is configured to receive meeting information and forward a meeting invitation that includes meeting metadata to each of the plurality of participant devices, the metadata comprising one or more topics of the meeting,
- wherein the analysis engine is configured to create the analysis results based at least on key words, names, and topics of the meeting information and communicate the analysis results to the recording server which is configured to determine a part of the meeting to record, a format to record the part in one or a combination of audio and visual format, and store the recorded part of the meeting in the recording database;
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- at least a first one and a second one of the plurality of participant devices is configured to provide the conferencing system a response to the meeting invitation, wherein the response includes metadata and (a) accepts the meeting invitation, and (b) includes a command to record the part of the meeting in the format that is less than an entire meeting, and the conferencing system is configured to select the part of the meeting to record based at least on the analysis results, comparing the metadata to determine if the one or more topics are relevant in the response to content of the entire meeting, and analyzing the content by utilizing image recognition software coupled to a camera that identifies visual aids used in the entire meeting, and
- wherein the part of the meeting commanded to be recorded by the first one of the plurality of participant devices is different from the part of the meeting commanded to be recorded by the second one of the plurality of participant devices.
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An electronic communication system comprising:
- a conferencing system comprising a conference server, a recording server in communication with the conferencing server, and a recording database;
- a plurality of participant devices in communication with the conferencing server;
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- an analysis engine in communication with the recording server and configured to receive input from the recording server to create analysis results;
- wherein the conferencing system is configured to (a) receive meeting information and transmit a meeting invitation that includes meeting metadata to each of the plurality of participant devices, the metadata comprising one or more topics of the meeting;
- wherein the analysis engine is configured to create the analysis results based at least on key words, names, and topics of the meeting metadata and communicate the analysis results to the recording server which is configured to determine a part of the meeting to record, a format to record the part in one or a combination of audio and visual format, and stores the recorded part of the meeting in the recording database;
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- wherein at least one of the plurality of participant devices is configured to send a response that includes metadata, wherein the response (b) accepts the meeting invitation, and (c) commands a recording of the part of the meeting in the format that is less than the entire meeting, and the conferencing system determines the part of the meeting that is less than the entire meeting based at least on the analysis results and comparing the metadata to determine if the one or more topics are relevant in the response to the meeting content by utilizing image recognition software coupled to a camera that identifies visual aids used in the entire meeting.
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An electronic communication method comprising the steps of:
- using a conference server, sending a meeting invitation including metadata comprising one or more topics of the meeting to a plurality of participant devices that are in communication with the conference server by a plurality of network participant devices;
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- using one of the plurality of participant devices, transmitting a response to the meeting invitation to the conference server, wherein the response includes response metadata, and the response (a) accepts the meeting invitation, and (b) includes a command to record a part of the meeting that is less than the entire meeting, wherein the conference server determines the part of the meeting to be recorded based on an analysis engine creating analysis results based key words, names, and topics of the metadata and comparing the metadata to determine if the one or more topics are relevant in the response to visual aids used in the entire meeting by utilizing image recognition software coupled to a camera;
- communicating the analysis results to a recording server in communication with the analysis engine to determine a part of the meeting to record and a format to record the part in one or a combination of audio and visual format, and wherein each of the other of the plurality of participant devices is configured to transmit a response to the meeting invitation to the recording server to record the part of the meeting that is less than the entire meeting and that is different from the part commanded to be recorded by the one of the plurality of participant devices;
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- storing the part of the meeting in a recording database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.