US 7,679,518 B1Granted

Meeting facilitation tool

AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.

InventorsKuldipsingh A. Pabla, Eric Pouyoul, Calvin J. Cheng

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Abstract

A meeting facilitation tool may perform and/or facilitate the planning, scheduling, holding, and/or following up of meeting related activities. A meeting facilitation tool may schedule a meeting time by interacting with meeting participants to determine a time range during which all the participants are available. Additionally, a meeting facilitation tool may programmatically interact with calendar data to schedule the meeting with each participant. A meeting facilitation tool may also allow reviewing of information for previous meetings. Additionally, a meeting facilitation tool may configure and/or initiate teleconferencing or video conferencing as well as the audio and/or video recording of the meeting. A meeting facilitation tool may also track and completion of action items assigned during a meeting.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A device, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions configured to implement a meeting facilitation tool, wherein the meeting facilitation tool is configured to:
receive user input specifying information regarding a new meeting, wherein the information comprises one or more meeting invitees;
programmatically determine available information for each of the meeting invitees;
determine a time frame for the new meeting based on availability information for each of the meeting invitees;
send a meeting invitation message to each of the meeting invitees;
and
store an indication of a current meeting state of the new meeting in a respective one of one or more shared meeting computer program objects configured to transition among a plurality of meeting states;
wherein each of the one or more shared meeting computer program objects stores meeting state information for a single, distinct meeting, and is accessible by two or more meeting-aware applications or instances thereof to determine the current meeting state;
and
wherein each of the plurality of meeting states corresponds to a distinct phase of the new meeting during which one or more meeting related activities are to be performed for the new meeting, and wherein the plurality of meeting states comprises two or more of:
a pre-meeting state, an in-meeting state, and a post-meeting state.

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A computer readable storage medium, storing program instructions executable to implement:

a meeting facilitation tool receiving user input specifying information regarding a new meeting, wherein the information comprises one or more meeting invitees;
the meeting facilitation tool programmatically determining available information for each of the meeting invitees;
the meeting facilitation tool determining a time frame for the new meeting based on availability information for each of the meeting invitees;
the meeting facilitation tool electronically sending a meeting invitation messages to each of the meeting invitees;
and
the meeting facilitation tool storing an indication of a current meeting state of the new meeting in a respective one of one or more shared meeting computer program objects configured to transition among a plurality of meeting states;
wherein each of the one or more shared meeting computer program objects stores meeting state information for a single, distinct meeting, and is accessible by two or more meeting-aware applications or instances thereof to determine the current meeting state;
and
wherein each of the plurality of meeting states corresponds to a distinct phase of the new meeting during which one or more meeting related activities are to be performed for the new meeting, and wherein the plurality of meeting states comprises two or more of:
a pre-meeting state, an in-meeting state, and a post-meeting state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.