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Granted Patent B2
US 8,732,244 · App. 13/763,965 · Granted May 20, 2014

Virtual private meeting room

Inventor: Haim Karniely (Holon, IL)
Assignee: Interwise Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,732,244
App. No.
13/763,965
Granted
May 20, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Conference sessions are established after assigning a unique user identifier to each of multiple individual users, allocating a dedicated persistent virtual private session room to each of the multiple individual users, and assigning each of the multiple individual users' unique user identifier to the corresponding persistent virtual private session room. Conference sessions are established using the persistent virtual private session rooms in response to activation acts by the multiple individual users. Resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions are dynamically allocated, using distributed conference bridge computers, based on the users logging in to the conference sessions.

Claims (46)

1. A method of establishing a conference session, comprising:

assigning a unique user identifier to each of a plurality of individual users, allocating a dedicated persistent virtual private session room to each of the plurality of individual users, and assigning each of the plurality of individual users' unique user identifier to the corresponding persistent virtual private session room;

establishing conference sessions using the persistent virtual private session rooms in response to activation acts by the plurality of individual users; and

dynamically allocating, using distributed conference bridge computers, resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions based on the assigned unique user identifiers of the users that are logged in to the conference sessions,

wherein multiple conference sessions initiated by a particular user are conducted in a single particular dedicated persistent virtual private session room dedicated to the particular user.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein resources presented during the conference sessions can be edited by owners of the persistent virtual private session rooms in which the conference sessions take place.

3. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein resources presented during the conference sessions in the persistent virtual private session rooms remain available, to users that logged in to the conference sessions, in the persistent virtual private session rooms after the conference sessions end.

4. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein information about the conference sessions remains available in association with the persistent virtual private session rooms after the conference sessions end.

5. The method according to claim 4 ,

wherein the information about the conference sessions includes times that each participant in the conference sessions logs on and logs off.

6. The method according to claim 4 ,

wherein the information about the conference sessions includes annotations to the resources presented during the conference sessions.

7. The method according to claim 4 ,

wherein the information about the conference sessions includes collaborative information about collaborations between participants in the conference sessions.

8. The method according to claim 4 ,

wherein the information about the conference sessions includes information about relationships between the conference sessions.

9. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the plurality of individual users is assigned a plurality of unique user identifiers.

10. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein a shared unique user identifier is shared among each of a plurality of distinct devices concurrently connected to a user in a conference session.

11. The method according to claim 10 ,

wherein a user concurrently connected to the conference session via the plurality of distinct devices selects a type of content to receive on one of the plurality of distinct devices.

12. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the unique user identifiers are used to connect the plurality of individual users to different conference sessions at different times.

13. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the persistent virtual private session rooms are owned by the plurality of individual users.

14. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the persistent virtual private session rooms store content presented during conference sessions.

15. The method according to claim 14 ,

wherein content provided during conference sessions comprises visual files.

16. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein communications are established when conference sessions are active by dynamically allocating resources.

17. The method according to claim 16 ,

wherein resources are dynamically allocated when users joins active conference sessions.

18. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein resources are released when users leave active conference sessions.

19. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein privileges accorded to conference participants in advance include a privilege to present content and a privilege to edit content.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a computer-executable set of instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing a computer to:

assign a unique user identifier to each of a plurality of individual users, allocating a dedicated persistent virtual private session room to each of the plurality of individual users, and assigning each of the plurality of individual users' unique user identifier to the corresponding persistent virtual private session room;

establish conference sessions using the persistent virtual private session rooms in response to activation acts by the plurality of users; and

dynamically allocate, using distributed conference bridge computers, resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions and based on the assigned unique user identifiers of the users that are logged in to the conference sessions,

wherein multiple conference sessions initiated by a particular user are conducted in a single particular dedicated persistent virtual private session room dedicated to the particular user.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2021
From: INTERWISE LTD.
To: SERVICENOW, INC.
Reel/Frame 055027/0665 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE EXECUTION DATE OF ASSIGNOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 029789 FRAME: 0242. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 21, 2020
From: KARNIELY, HAIM
To: INTERWISE LTD.
Reel/Frame 054822/0348 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2013
From: KARNIELY, HAIM
To: INTERWISE LTD.
Reel/Frame 029789/0242 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 13466209 · May 8, 2012
Continuation 11787562 · Apr 16, 2007
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