Collaboration integration
OwnerThomas Odenwald, Slava Mikerininventors
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Abstract
Integrating collaboration products or processes includes receiving a first collaboration request from a user application, selecting from among multiple available collaboration services offered by multiple service providers a first collaboration service from a first service provider that corresponds to the received first collaboration request, and providing the user application with session launch information that enables the user application to start a collaboration session using the first collaboration service from the first service provider.
Claims28
A computer-implemented method of providing access to one or more collaboration services, the method comprising:
- receiving a collaboration request from an application;
- selecting, from among a plurality of available collaboration services offered by a plurality of service providers, a first collaboration service from a first service provider, the selected collaboration service corresponding to the received collaboration request;
- and
- providing the application with session launch information that enables the application to start a collaboration session using the first collaboration service from the first service provider.
The method of 8, wherein the first collaboration session occurs concurrently with the second collaboration session.
A collaboration integration system comprising:
- a plurality of service provider connectors, each connector adapted to communicate information regarding collaboration sessions with a collaboration service provider;
- a client interface that receives messages from and transmits messages to a user application at a client remote from the system;
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- an integration system operative to receive collaboration session requests from the client through the client interface, and to direct the client to one of a plurality of collaboration service providers to establish a collaboration session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.