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US 2012/0269185 A1Published application
System and method for computer based collaboration initiated via a voice call
AssigneePbx Central Corpotation
InventorsMark CASTLEMAN, Charles MILLER
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Abstract
A method and infrastructure for online collaboration, cloud computing in which collaboration sessions, known as peering sessions, are triggered by telephone calls. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
Claims40
A collaboration method in which at least a first party and a second party collaborate over a voice telecommunications link and a computer network communications link, comprising:
- receiving a call initiation from the first party indicating a desire to place a call to the second party;
- determining whether the first party has a peering relationship with the second party;
- if the first party has a peering relationship with the second party initiating a peering session between the first and second party by:
- determining the peering relationship parameters of the peering relationship between the first and second party;
- initiating a peering environment on a first peering device operated by the first party and initiating a peering environment on a second peering device operated by the second party based on the determined relationship parameters;
- and
- initiating a communications link between the first and second peering environments;
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- establishing a voice communications session between the first party and the second party.
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The collaboration method of claim 15 wherein initiating a peering session further comprises:
- determining data items shared between the first and second user during prior peering sessions and displaying pointers to such shared items in a collaboration dashboard on the first and second peering environments.
A peering environment infrastructure, comprising one or more server computers collectively programmed:
- to receive a call placement message from a voice-over-IP telephony server wherein the call placement message indicates that a voice communications session is being created between a first telephony station associated with a first user and the second telephony station associated with a second user;
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- in response to receiving a call placement message to:
- determine whether a peering relationship exists between the first and second user;
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- upon detecting that a peering relationship exists between the first and second user, transmit a peering session start message to a peering client operated on a first peering device associated with the first user, and to transmit a peering session start message to a peering client operated on a second peering device associated with the second user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.