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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSean Callanan, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Fred Raguillat, Carol S. Zimmet
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Enforcing user-defined real-time communication session terminations can begin with a termination enforcement handler identifying termination conditions applicable to a real-time communication session hosted by a unified telephony system. The termination conditions can define a limit for an operational variable for the unified telephony system or the real-time communication session. The identified termination conditions can be evaluated. If a termination condition is satisfied, it can be determined which participants are to be disconnected from the real-time communication session based upon handling rules for the termination conditions and/or termination preferences associated with the real-time communication session. The termination preferences can be defined by an initiating entity of the real-time communication session. The participants can be notified that their connection to the real-time communication session will be terminated in a predefined time limit. If the predefined time limit is reached, the participants' connection to the real-time communication session can be automatically terminated.
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The present invention relates to the field of unified telephony computing and, more particularly, to user-defined system-enforced session termination in a unified telephony environment.
Unified telephony systems provide an organization with a single solution that encompasses a wide variety of real-time communication media (e.g., instant messaging, telephone access using voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), online collaboration, video conferencing, etc.).
One aspect of the present invention can include a method for enforcing user-defined real-time communication session terminations. Such a method can begin with a termination enforcement handler identifying termination conditions applicable to a real-time communication session hosted by a unified telephony system. The termination conditions can define a limit for an operational variable for the unified telephony system or the real-time communication session. The identified termination conditions can then be evaluated. If at least one termination condition is satisfied, it can be determined which participants are to be disconnected from the real-time communication session based upon handling rules for the termination conditions and/or termination preferences associated with the real-time communication session. The termination preferences can be defined by an initiating entity of the real-time communication session. The participants can be notified that their connection to the real-time communication session will be terminated in a predefined time limit. If the predefined time limit is reached, the participants' connection to the real-time communication session can be automatically terminated.
FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method detailing an overview of the enforcement of user-defined session terminations in a unified telephony environment by a termination enforcement handler in accordance with embodiments of the inventive arrangements disclosed herein.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method illustrating the use of the termination enforcement handler to enforce session terminations based upon scheduled calendar events in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive arrangements disclosed herein.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a method describing the use of corporate hierarchy data by a termination enforcement handler in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive arrangements disclosed herein.
While performing activities in unified telephony systems, users are typically unaware of other impending events that should or will affect their session unless they constantly monitor other software applications or systems.
For example, a user working on a document in an online collaboration session is easily caught unaware that the collaboration server is being taken down for maintenance if they are not monitoring a maintenance schedule or a specifically contacted. Thus, if the server is shut down, the user loses their work.
Attempts to solve this problem place the burden of schedule knowledge upon the user. That is, it is up to the user to track the resources that they use and a current availability state of these resources. While such approaches work fine for scheduled outages, they do not accommodate outages that occur as a result of the dynamic nature of the unified telephony system and underlying network.