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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2003
Erik J. Burckart, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Patrick Galvin, Jr., Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Brian L. Pulito, Lexington, KY (US);
Erik J. Burckart, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Patrick Galvin, Jr., Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Brian L. Pulito, Lexington, KY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for policy driven, online meeting updates during the course of an electronic meeting. The invention defines one or more groups of participants in an electronic meeting, and assigns a unique relative priority to each group of participants. Meeting events, such as slide changes or other data that is sent to the various participants for viewing, are transmitted to the various groups in a sequence ordered by the relative priorities assigned to the groups. Alternatively, the invention provides for randomly staggering the delivery of data to the various groups. Both embodiments alleviate the scalability problems that arise for electronic meetings having large numbers of participants.