Avaya Inc.

James R Gutcher

John H Yoakum

Philip K Edholm

Alan Edward Baratz

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for initiating an application for participants of a conference are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is provided for concurrently initiating an application for participants of a conference. A conference may be established including a plurality of participant user devices. A request may be received from a participant user device in the conference to assign an application to the conference after the conference has been established. The application may be assigned to the conference. In response to the assigning the application to the conference, initiation of the application for use on each of the plurality of participant user devices in the conference may be concurrently requested. Apparatuses and computer-readable media having instructions for providing the method are also disclosed. These may provide multiple application instances for different participants of the conference, and may result in increased collaboration and/or productivity for participants of a conference.

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for initiating an application for participants of a conference

A method and apparatus for generating a collaboration timeline which illustrates application artifacts in context. A collaboration session includes a plurality of participants. Each participant collaborates via a corresponding processing device. Media streams associated with the plurality of participants are received during the collaboration session and a collaboration media stream based on the media streams is generated. A collaboration application generates an artifact during the collaboration session. A timeline entry is generated in a collaboration timeline, the timeline entry including time information identifying a time associated with the artifact, and a reference to the artifact.

Method and system for generating a collaboration timeline illustrating application artifacts in context

A method and device for presenting contextual data to a participant in a collaboration. A first computing device determines that a first participant associated with the first computing device is participating in a communications session with a second participant associated with a second computing device. The first computing device determines a first plurality of contextual keys. The first computing device receives a second plurality of contextual keys from the second computing device. The first computing device identifies a plurality of contextual items based on the first plurality of contextual keys and the second plurality of contextual keys, and presents a user interface depicting a plurality of contextual item references, wherein each contextual item reference corresponds to one of the plurality of contextual items.

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Sammamish, WA, United States of America

James R Gutcher