Meeting State Recall
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRuss Burtner, Kevin Russ, Ian Sands, John Snavely
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Abstract
Meeting state recall may be provided. A meeting context may be saved at the end of and/or during an event. The meeting context may comprise, for example, a hardware configuration, a software configuration, a recording of the meeting, and/or data associated with a subject of the meeting. The meeting context may be associated with an ongoing project and may be restored at a subsequent meeting associated with the ongoing project.
Claims20
A method for providing meeting state recall, the method comprising:
- saving a meeting context;
- associating the meeting context with at least one project;
- and
- restoring the meeting context at a later meeting associated with the at least one project.
A computer-readable medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for providing meeting state recall, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- recording each of a plurality of events;
- transcribing the recording for each of the plurality of events;
- sending a copy of the transcription to at least one user associated with the plurality of events;
- capturing, during each of the plurality of events, the state of at least one display device associated with each of the plurality of events;
- maintaining an attendance record for a plurality of attendees at each of the plurality of events;
- and
- restoring the state of the at least one display device to the captured state at the start of a subsequent event of the plurality of events.
A system for providing meeting state recall, the system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- transcribe a recording of a meeting associated with a project, wherein the project comprises a plurality of associated users;
- identify at least one speaker on the recording as one of the plurality of associated users;
- capture at least one image of the meeting;
- save an attendee list of the meeting, wherein being operative to save the attendee list comprises being operative to create a record indicating whether or not each of the plurality of associated users was present at the meeting;
- save at least one open task item associated with the project;
- assign the at least one open task item to at least one of the plurality of associated users;
- capture the state of at least one display device operative to display information associated with the project;
- schedule at least one second meeting at a later time;
- prepare an agenda for the at least one future meeting;
- and
- at the time for the at least one second meeting, repopulate the at least one display device with the captured state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.