Notifying electronic meeting participants of interesting information
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJudith Helen Bank, Lisa Marie Wood Bradley, Lin Sun, ChunHui Yang
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Abstract
Described are a system and method for notifying electronic meeting participants of information of interest. For an electronic meeting, a relationship is determined between a first participant and one or more second participants having a relationship with the first participant. A degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting is determined. A notification is generated for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- for an electronic meeting, determining a relationship between a first participant and one or more second participants having a relationship with the first participant;
- determining a degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting;
- and
- generating a notification for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest, wherein the notification requests the first participant to participate in the portion of the electronic meeting providing of interest.
An attendee notification system, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- a memory device in communication with the hardware processor, the memory device storing the following:
- a relationship determination module executed at the hardware processor that determines a relationship between a first participant and one or more second participants of an electronic meeting having a relationship with the first participant;
- an attentiveness determination module that determines a degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting;
- and
- a notification module that generates a notification for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest, wherein the notification requests the first participant to participate in the portion of the electronic meeting providing information of interest.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to determine, for an electronic meeting, a relationship between a first participant and one or more second participants having a relationship with the first participant;
- computer readable program code configured to determine a degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to generate a notification for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest, wherein the notification requests the first participant to participate in the portion of the electronic meeting providing information of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.