Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090030985 | FAMILY-BASED ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING - According to embodiments of the disclosure, social networking families are established in an online social network. Each family has family members, a family profile, and a family policy, where the family profile provides information about the family to members of the social network, and the family policy defines the accessibility of information about the family within the social network. Different families may be associated as “family friends,” such that each member of one family may access the family profile of another family provided that the families are family friends. | 01-29-2009 |
20100005142 | REAL-TIME EVENT NOTIFICATION FOR COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, a determination is made that a specified event of a collaborative computing session has occurred. In response to the specified event, a real-time electronic notification is transmitted to a particular set of one or more attendees of the session that the event has occurred, the notification illustratively transmitted via a communication channel other than the session. | 01-07-2010 |
20100088414 | SELECTIVELY JOINING CLIENTS TO MEETING SERVERS - In an embodiment, a hosted-on-premises meeting exchange server operates seamlessly with web meeting servers. For example, one computer-implemented method comprises receiving a request from a client computer to join a web meeting; determining whether the client computer is coupled to a local network which includes an on-premises-meeting exchange server; in response to determining that the client computer is coupled to the local network, joining the client computer to the web meeting at the on-premises-meeting exchange server when the on-premises-meeting exchange server has sufficient capacity, and otherwise joining the client computer to the web meeting at an off-premises-meeting exchange server; and in response to determining that the client computer is not coupled to the local network, joining the client computer to the web meeting at the off-premises-meeting exchange server. | 04-08-2010 |
20100121959 | LOW-LEVEL REMOTE SHARING OF LOCAL DEVICES IN A REMOTE ACCESS SESSION ACROSS A COMPUTER NETWORK - In one embodiment, a remote access session may be established between a first computer and a second computer. In response to detecting a device in low-level local communication with the first computer via a first local communication port of the first computer, the low-level local communication at the first local communication port may be intercepted and transmitted to the second computer via the remote access session. Then, the low-level local communication may be injected to a second local communication port of the second computer, wherein the second computer responds to the low-level local communication as though the device were located at the second local communication port of the second computer. For example, the device may be configured to autoconnect with the second computer via the remote access session when the device is connected to the first computer. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131868 | LIMITEDLY SHARING APPLICATION WINDOWS IN APPLICATION SHARING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, an application sharing session may be established between a presenter device and one or more viewer devices, and at least one application window may be generated on the presenter device that is to be shared with the one or more viewer devices. At the presenter device, a determination may be made regarding which one or more predefined areas of the application window are to be limitedly shared. Accordingly, the application window may be shared with the one or more viewer devices, while limiting sharing of the one or more predefined areas of the application window. | 05-27-2010 |
20100223320 | DATA DISTRIBUTION EFFICIENCY FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, an online collaborative computing session is initiated between a presenter device and a plurality of attendee devices via a server in a computer network. The server distributes session data from the presenter device to the plurality of attendee devices. To decrease the amount of traffic in the network, at least one of the plurality of attendee devices may be selected as a super node, where each super node is then responsible for one or more corresponding attendee devices of the session. The session data is received at the super nodes and distributed from the super node to its one or more corresponding attendee devices. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228824 | DISTRIBUTED SERVER SELECTION FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, an attendee device detects interest to join an online collaborative computing session, and determines a list of distributed servers for the online collaborative computing session in a computer network. The attendee device may then measure a round trip time (RTT) to each distributed server from the attendee device, such that the attendee device may select a distributed server for the online collaborative computing session based on the RTT. Accordingly, the attendee device many then join the online collaborative computing session through the selected distributed server (e.g., which may cascade communication for the session from a hosting distributed server). | 09-09-2010 |
20110023096 | TOKEN-BASED CONTROL OF PERMITTED SUB-SESSIONS FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, a client device may send one or more sub-session requests to one or more corresponding session controllers through a computer network to obtain one or more corresponding sub-session tokens that indicate in which sub-sessions of an online collaborative computing session the client device is permitted to participate. The client device may then receive particular sub-session tokens (e.g., based on certain permissions), which may then be sent to a collaboration server to establish one or more permitted sub-sessions of the online collaborative computing session with the client device as indicated by the received sub-session tokens. | 01-27-2011 |
20110164107 | EFFICIENT AND ON DEMAND CONVERGENCE OF AUDIO AND NON-AUDIO PORTIONS OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION FOR PHONES - In one embodiment, source data for a communication session may be split into an audio portion for transmission on a phone channel and a non-audio portion for transmission on a data channel. A server and a phone may accordingly establish an audio portion of a communication session on the phone channel. In response to a trigger, the server may provide a push notification on the data channel to the phone, where the push notification is associated with an application executing on the phone that is configured to participate in the non-audio portion of the communication session on the data channel with the server. Upon obtaining the push notification on the data channel during the audio portion on the phone channel, the application may correspondingly activate on the phone to participate in the non-audio portion of the communication session during the phone's participation in the audio portion (e.g., merging the portions). | 07-07-2011 |
20110164735 | EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF AUDIO AND NON-AUDIO PORTIONS OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION FOR PHONES - In one embodiment, a server may obtain source data for a communication session having a combined audio portion and non-audio portion. As such, the server may actively split the audio portion of the communication session from the non-audio portion of the communication session, and then provide the audio portion (to a first set of one or more phones) over a phone channel and the non-audio portion (to a second set of one or more phones) over a separate data channel. The second set of phones may then obtain and merge the audio portion from the phone channel and the non-audio portion from the data channel to reestablish the full communication session. | 07-07-2011 |
20110202599 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR RECORDING AND VIEWING A COLLABORATION SESSION - In one embodiment, a collaboration session is maintained among a plurality of participant devices, at least one participant device operating as a presenter device that shares content during the collaboration session. Content shared during the collaboration session is recorded. A request is detected during the collaboration session from a particular participant device of the plurality of participant devices to view at least a portion of the recorded content. In response to the request during the collaboration from the particular participant device to view the at least a portion of the recorded content, the at least a portion of the recorded content is played back while the collaboration session is still ongoing, wherein the particular participant device remains an active participant in the ongoing collaboration session during playback of the at least a portion of the recorded content. Eventually, playback of the at least a portion of the recorded content is ceased. | 08-18-2011 |
20110307616 | LOW-LEVEL REMOTE SHARING OF LOCAL DEVICES IN A REMOTE ACCESS SESSION ACROSS A COMPUTER NETWORK - In one embodiment, a device is connected to a first computer via a first local communication port of the first computer. If the device is configured to autoconnect with a second computer upon connection of the device to the first computer, a remote access session is established between the first computer and the second computer. Low-level local communication from the device is intercepted at the first local communication port of the first computer. The low-level local communication is transmitted from the first computer to the second computer via the remote access session. The low-level local communication is injected to a second local communication port of the second computer to thereby provide an autoconnection of the device to the second computer. | 12-15-2011 |
20120059915 | MANAGING REMOTE COMPUTER TRAINING LABS - An educational and training system allows organization and management of computers and course material used in teaching and administering classes of computer based information. Remote users access computers in laboratories or virtual classrooms as if they were actually using the computers within the laboratory or classroom. The system also allows management and tracking of the remote users and of other various course details. | 03-08-2012 |
20130235866 | Efficient and on Demand Convergence of Audio and Non-Audio Portions of a Communication Session for Phones - In one embodiment, source data for a communication session may be split into an audio portion for transmission on a phone channel and a non-audio portion for transmission on a data channel. A server and a phone may accordingly establish an audio portion of a communication session on the phone channel. In response to a trigger, the server may provide a push notification on the data channel to the phone, where the push notification is associated with an application executing on the phone that is configured to participate in the non-audio portion of the communication session on the data channel with the server. Upon obtaining the push notification on the data channel during the audio portion on the phone channel, the application may correspondingly activate on the phone to participate in the non-audio portion of the communication session during the phone's participation in the audio portion (e.g., merging the portions). | 09-12-2013 |