Web meeting integrations with content management systems

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform a set of acts, the set of acts comprising:

• presenting an online virtual canvas as an active area of an online meeting facility that renders participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions from a respective plurality of user devices in an online meeting;
• identifying, at a content management system (CMS), an annotation with respect to a content object, wherein the annotation is created in a second online virtual canvas from a second user device, and the annotation is created in or over the content object uploaded from the content management system CMS for display on a first online virtual canvas by a first user for collaboration on the content object in the online meeting;
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• facilitating the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions over the content object between at least the first online virtual canvas and the second online virtual canvas on the online meeting facility while the content object is hosted by the CMS based at least in part upon a content management system CMS command that is generated based at least in part upon meanings derived from the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions, facilitating the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions comprising:
• determining, based at least in part upon the meanings derived from the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions, whether the CMS is to apply a change to the content object or to apply the change to the metadata associated with the content object, wherein the annotation made in the second online virtual canvas results in the change in the CMS with respect to the content object;
• when it is determined that the CMS is to apply the change to the content object, generating the CMS command for execution by the CMS at least by performing a first translation task on the annotation to match a first canonical representation of the annotation to the CMS command;
• when it is determined that the CMS is to apply the change to the metadata, generating the CMS command at least by performing a second translation task on the annotation to match a second canonical representation of the annotation to the CMS command, wherein the first or second canonical representations of the annotation are matched to the command at least by accessing a data structure having a plurality of canonical representations to perform a lookup operation based on the first or second canonical representation of the annotation, the data structure associating canonical representations of interaction events to respective CMS commands, and the first and the second translation tasks are determined based at least in part upon whether the CMS is to apply the change to the content object or to the metadata;
• executing the CMS command at the CMS to apply the change based at least in part upon the annotation received at the CMS;
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• uploading data pertaining to at least the change from the CMS to a first user device for the first user to interact with the content object with respect to the annotation on the first online virtual canvas.

A system comprising:

• a storage medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions;
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• one or more processors that execute the sequence of instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform a set of acts, the set of acts comprising:
• presenting an online virtual canvas as an active area of an online meeting facility that renders participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions from a respective plurality of user devices in an online meeting;
• identifying, at a content management system (CMS), an annotation with respect to a content object, wherein the annotation is created in a second online virtual canvas from a second user device, and the annotation is created in or over the content object uploaded from the content management system CMS for display on a first online virtual canvas by a first user for collaboration on the content object in the online meeting;
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• facilitating the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions over the content object between at least the first online virtual canvas and the second online virtual canvas on the online meeting facility while the content object is hosted by the CMS based at least in part upon a content management system CMS command that is generated based at least in part upon meanings derived from the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions, facilitating the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions comprising:
• determining, based at least in part upon the meanings derived from the participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions, whether the CMS is to apply a change to the content object or to apply the change to the metadata associated with the content object, wherein the annotation made in the second online virtual canvas results in the change in the CMS with respect to the content object;
• when it is determined that the CMS is to apply the change to the content object, generating the CMS command for execution by the CMS at least by performing a first translation task on the annotation to match a first canonical representation of the annotation to the CMS command;
• when it is determined that the CMS is to apply the change to the metadata, generating the CMS command at least by performing a second translation task on the annotation to match a second canonical representation of the annotation to the CMS command, wherein the first or second canonical representations of the annotation are matched to the command at least by accessing a data structure having a plurality of canonical representations to perform a lookup operation based on the first or second canonical representation of the annotation, the data structure associating canonical representations of interaction events to respective CMS commands, and the first and the second translation tasks are determined based at least in part upon whether the CMS is to apply the change to the content object or to the metadata;
• executing the CMS command at the CMS to apply the change based at least in part upon the annotation received at the CMS;
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• uploading data pertaining to at least the change from the CMS to a first user device for the first user to interact with the content object with respect to the annotation on the first online virtual canvas.