Generating intentional interruptions during gatherings
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSasha P. Caskey, Robert G. Farrell, Dimitri Kanevsky, Tara N. Sainath
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Abstract
Systems and methods for generating interruptions are provided. A method for generating interruptions, comprises generating a message for one or more recipients, detecting that a computing device is being used for a presentation, concluding, using a processor, that the one or more recipients are in an audience for the presentation, and after concluding that the one or more recipients are in the audience, interrupting the presentation with the message.
Claims19
A system for generating interruptions, comprising:
- a messaging module capable of generating a message for one or more recipients;
- and
- an interruption management module capable of detecting that a computing device is being used for a presentation, concluding that the one or more recipients are in an audience for the presentation, and interrupting the presentation with the message after concluding that the one or more recipients are in the audience.
An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium comprising program code tangibly embodied thereon, which when executed by a computer, performs method steps for generating interruptions, the method steps comprising:
- generating a message for one or more recipients;
- detecting that a computing device is being used for a presentation;
- concluding that the one or more recipients are in an audience for the presentation;
- and
- after concluding that the one or more recipients are in the audience, interrupting the presentation with the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.