Electronic meeting time of arrival estimation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAsima Silva, Richard Gorzela, Jaime M. Stockton
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Abstract
Electronic meeting time of arrival estimation is described. A number of attendees to an electronic meeting are identified. Based on an indication that a first attendee is in another electronic meeting, an estimated time of arrival for that first attendee to the electronic meeting is determined. Other attendees to the electronic meeting are provided with the estimated time of arrival of the first attendee.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying a number of attendees to an electronic meeting;
- based on an indication that a first attendee is in another electronic meeting, determining an estimated time of arrival of the first attendee to the electronic meeting;
- and
- providing the estimated time of arrival of the first attendee to other attendees to the electronic meeting.
A system comprising:
- a database comprising user meeting history information;
- a scheduler to:
- identify a number of attendees to an electronic meeting;
- and
- identify a meeting schedule for each of the number of attendees;
- a meeting manager to determine whether each of the number of attendees is in another electronic meeting;
- an estimator to, based on an indication that a first attendee of the number of attendees is in another electronic meeting, estimate a time of arrival of the first attendee to the electronic meeting;
- and
- an interface to provide the estimated time of arrival of the first attendee to other attendees to the electronic meeting.
A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
- identify a number of attendees to an active electronic meeting;
- determine whether a first attendee is in another electronic meeting;
- based on an indication that the first attendee is n another electronic meeting, determine an estimated time of arrival of the first attendee to the electronic meeting based on:
- a meeting type of the other electronic meeting;
- natural language analysis of the other electronic meeting;
- a meeting history for the first attendee;
- and
- a geographic location of the first attendee;
- and
- provide the estimated time of arrival of the first attendee to other attendees to the electronic meeting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.