International Business Machines Corporation

Duncan L Mewherter

Amy D Travis

Sandra Louise Kogan

Kevin Solie

Ronald E Pontrich, Jr

James Patrick Galvin, Jr

Robert Cameron Weir

Patrick Y Lin

Koah-Hsing Wang

James P Galvin

The present invention is a system, method and apparatus for converting a slide show presentation for use within a non-presentation application such as a Web conferencing or virtual classroom application. In accordance with the present invention, a slide show presentation in its native format can be processed to extract slide title information for each slide in the slide show presentation. Additionally, important text within slide further can be extracted. Each slide in the slide-show can be converted to a raster image and disposed within markup. The markup can be annotated with the important text and both the markup and the slide title can be provided to the non-presentation application for use in concert with the non-presentation application. In this way, the context of each slide can be preserved for use within the non-presentation application as can an image of each slide itself.

Retrieving slide show content from presentation documents

A method and system for an awareness service is provided. One or more collaborative contexts can be set for a first user within a set of users using the awareness service. One or more subsets of users can be defined within the set of users corresponding to the one or more collaborative contexts, respectively. Furthermore, a level of availability can be defined for the first user with respect to each of the subset of users. Next, an online status can be published on the awareness service for the first user. The online status can display an availability message to a second user. And, the availability message can have the highest level of availability selected from a group consisting of every level of availability defined for the first user with respect to every subset of users that includes the second user.

Ability to scope awareness to your current task

Described are a system and method for managing online communications by a user who participates in an awareness service system. A first awareness state associated with the user is published to a first participant of the awareness service system, while a second different awareness state associated with the user is published to a second participant of the awareness service system. Each published awareness state is based on a collaborative relationship between the user and the participant to which that awareness state is published.

System and method of managing real-time communications using context-based awareness states

A unification point that federates heterogeneous directory service systems can include an identifier communion table for storing a set of records, each record indexing a unified object ID to a directory object ID and a directory ID. The directory ID can be a unique identifier of a directory service system. The directory object ID can be a unique identifier of a record maintained by the directory service system. The unification point can also include a computer program product for accepting directory service requests including a unified object ID, for using the identifier communion table to look up a corresponding directory object ID and directory ID, for generating a modified directory service requests that substitutes the directory object ID for the unified object ID, for conveying the modified directory service requests to the directory service system, for receiving a response, and for conveying the response to a request issuing entity.

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Acton, MA, United States of America

Duncan L Mewherter