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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lisa M. Bradley, Cary, NC (US);

Liam Harpur, Dublin, IE;

Aaron J. Quirk, Raleigh, NC (US);

Lin Sun, Cary, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 67/2804 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

Approaches presented herein enable resuming a context for a group of electronic devices based on a prior activity of the group members. Specifically, a current context of a user electronic device is collected at a conclusion of a first collaboration session. One or more participant electronic devices associated with the user electronic device are identified, either by being in a same location or virtually connected. A current context of each of the identified participant electronic devices is collected. The context of the user electronic device and each of the participant electronic devices are stored in a context database. The current context of the user electronic device and each of the participant electronic devices are resumed at a beginning of a second collaboration session when the user electronic device is resumed (e.g., powered on or brought out of 'sleep' mode).


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