Cisco Technology, Inc.

Other

Web Ex Communications, Inc.

Lei Zhu

Min Zhu

Weidong Chen

David Robert Knight

Matthew Sheppard

Chris Kangas

Xudong Song

Peter Xiao

Manish Kumar

Jieyao Zhuang

Clement Chiang

In one embodiment, a scheduled collaboration session in a social network is detected, the scheduled collaboration session to occur at a time in the future and at that time provide real-time communication among participants. A plurality of participants expected to attend the scheduled collaboration session are detected. A subject matter of the scheduled collaboration session is detected. One or more key words are derived from the detected subject matter of the scheduled collaboration session. Profiles maintained in the social network for the plurality of participants expected to attend the scheduled collaboration session are updated based on the one or more key words, the updating to include refining an area of expertise indicated in the profiles.

System and method for attribute detection in user profile creation and update

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a collaboration session with a plurality of current participants; detect a subject matter of the collaboration session; and search for an additional participant based on the subject matter.

System and method for suggesting additional participants for a collaboration session

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses request an installation of an application; detect a user requesting the application; detect a profile associated with the user; and grant permission to install the application based on an installation permission.

Methods and apparatuses for managing the distribution and installation of applications during a collaboration session

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses request an application; detect a user requesting the application; detect a profile associated with the user; and grant permission to access the application based on an access parameter.

Methods and apparatuses for selectively accessing an application

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an application associated with a requester; suggest the application based on a requester parameter; select the application by the requester; and automatically initiate the application for the requester.

Methods and apparatuses for automatically initiating an application

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect shared content during a collaboration session; detect a content type based on the shared content; suggest an application based on the content type; and initiate the application during the collaboration session.

Methods and apparatuses for dynamically suggesting an application based on a collaboration session

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a network bandwidth; detect a sequence of frames; determine a motion based on the sequence of frames; set a target bit rate for the sequence of frames based on the network bandwidth; and set a frame rate for the sequence of frames based on the motion of the sequence of frames, wherein the target bit rate and the frame rate are utilized to process the sequence of frames.

Methods and apparatuses for performing scene adaptive rate control

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include requesting an expert during a collaboration session; determining a subject matter of the collaboration session; detecting a potential participant to serve as the expert; and inviting the potential participant to join the collaboration session.

Methods and apparatuses for locating an application during a collaboration session

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a current macroblock and an adjacent macroblock within the scene; detect a mode of the adjacent macroblock; and select a skip mode as a mode for the current macroblock based on the mode of the adjacent macroblock.

Methods and apparatuses for selecting a mode within a compression scheme

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a user participating in a collaboration session; create a profile associated with the user; and detect an attribute associated with the profile based on the collaboration session.

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses initiate a collaboration session from a presenter participant; select an available profile from a plurality of overall profiles based on a hierarchy structure of the plurality of overall profiles and a presenter profile corresponding to the presenter participant; and invite an attendee to the collaboration session by the presenter participant wherein the attendee corresponds to the available profile.

Methods and apparatuses for selectively providing privacy through a dynamic social network system

In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses receive a telephone number from an originating device; match the telephone number to an IM identifier; associate the IM identifier to a receiving device; and establish a telephone call between the originating device and the receiving device.

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Lei Zhu