Automated social network introductions for e-meetings

1. A method for automated social networking for e-meetings, the method comprising:

executing an e-meeting server in memory of a host computer and hosting an e-meeting in the e-meeting server and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account;

monitoring the content by the e-meeting server;

detecting during the monitoring a name in the monitored content;

comparing the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts; and,

on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring the content comprises speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content and monitoring the textual content speech recognized from the audio.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the triggering comprises triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.

4. An e-meeting data processing system configured for automated follow-up for e-meetings, the system comprising:

an e-meeting server executing in memory of a host computer and managing an e-meeting in the e-meeting server attended by a plurality of e-meeting participants and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account; and

an automated social networking module coupled to the e-meeting server, the module comprising program code enabled to monitor the content, to detect during the monitoring a name in the monitored content, to compare the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts and on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, to trigger generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

5. The system of claim 4 , further comprising a speech recognition engine speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content for monitoring by the program code for the module.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the program code of the module triggers generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.

7. A computer program product for automated social networking for e-meetings, the 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 for executing an e-meeting server in memory of a host computer and hosting an e-meeting in the e-meeting server and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account;

computer readable program code for monitoring the content by the e-meeting server;

computer readable program code for detecting during the monitoring a name in the monitored content;

computer readable program code for comparing the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts; and,

computer readable program code for, on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein the computer readable program code for monitoring the content comprises computer readable program code for speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content and monitoring the textual content speech recognized from the audio.

9. The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein the computer readable program code for the triggering comprises computer readable program code for triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.