International Business Machines Corporation

Christopher D Price

William M Quinn

Erik John Burckart

James Patrick Galvin, Jr

Amy D Travis

Thomas Schaeck

Brian L Pulito

Madhu K Chetuparambil

James S Johnston

Christopher Hyland

Brian G Cline

Ronald E Pontrich, Jr

Ron E Pontrich

Ramya Sethuraman

Aseel Aziz-Gomez

Miles A Palis

William Michael Quinn

Ronald Eugene Pontrich

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to resource consumption in a clustered environment hosting an e-meeting and provide a method, system and computer program product for resource consumption reduction for an e-meeting via meeting affinity. In one embodiment of the invention, an e-meeting affinity method can be provided. In a clustered environment, the e-meeting affinity method can include identifying a clone supporting an e-meeting and having session affinity with a moderator to the e-meeting. The method further can include establishing session affinity between the clone and other participants to the e-meeting for requests relating to the e-meeting while permitting parallel session affinity to other clones for requests from the other participants not relating to the e-meeting.

Resource consumption reduction via meeting affinity

A system for providing resource-based synchronization between clients in a Web-based real-time collaboration, in which a session front end on the server layers a transaction history on top of all session resources. HTTP operations are issued by client systems to request changes to session resources and to request session updates. The HTTP resource change requests include hierarchical pointers containing session identifiers and resource identifiers within a URL. The client generated resource change request operations may be HTTP PUT, HTTP DELETE, and HTTP POST commands. The HTTP session update request operations may be HTTP GET commands. A session front end stores each received resource change request operation in a resource-specific transaction history of change request operations received from all client systems. The session front end maintains a current session state indicating the number of resource change request operations stored for each session resource. A last session state for each client system indicates the number of change request operations that client system has previously received for each session resource. For a session update, the session front end compares the last client session state for the requesting client with the current session state and determines the change request operations that need to be forwarded to the requesting client system to bring it up to date. The session front end removes negating change request operations from the change request operations forwarded to the requesting client system.

Resource-based synchronization between endpoints in a web-based real time collaboration

A highly scalable and highly responsive RTC system uses asynchronous or non-blocking I/O and HTTP response queuing to avoid server overload. The system distinguishes between two types of requests: an update request and a change request. An update request is a request used to fetch an update or change notification. A change request is a request to change some data related to the real-time session. For a given RTC session, the server first checks whether any updates exist for an update request. If an update exists, the server code can send an immediate response to the client. However, if no update exists, the server code application sets a well-defined HTTP response header, and then responds. Once the server code application responds, all application server resources are freed, and the application server is free to handle the next requests without blocking any thread.

System and method for achieving highly scalable real-time collaboration applications using HTTP

Described are an online meeting system and method for integrating a third-party system with the online meeting system. A service provider interface (SPI) defines procedures for communicating with a meeting services application of the online meeting system. Each software module implements the procedures of the SPI to perform meeting-related operations customized in accordance with the third-party system when called by the meeting service application. Called SPI procedures include two types. One type notifies a software module of a proposed transaction of an event in the online meeting system, to enable the software module to perform the meeting-related operation before the event occurs. A second type notifies a software module of an event that has occurred in the online meeting system, to enable the software module to perform the meeting-related operation in response to the occurrence of that event.

Service program interface for integrating modules with a scheduled meeting service

A method, system, and computer program product for providing a pop-up repelling region (e.g., frame) for use in a screen sharing session that includes providing, or creating a region on a screen, during a screen sharing session, that includes a view of at least one application within the region and repelling from the view in the frame of all other applications.

Screen sharing session with selective pop-ups

Under the present invention, a source meeting partner can select a target application for sharing with one ore more destination meeting partners during a collaborative meeting. Upon selection of the target application, a portion of a meeting application window will be removed, and a window corresponding to the target application will be positioned to be viewable through the removed portion. If necessary, one or more navigators (e.g., scroll bars) can be provided to manipulate the target application window. Thus, the present invention allows the meeting application window and the target application window to be simultaneously viewable without requiring resizing or repositioning of either one.

Method, system and program product for managing windows in a network-based collaborative meeting

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