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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2003
William M. Quinn, Lexington, KY (US);
Miles A. Palis, Lexington, KY (US);
Ronald E. Pontrich, Jr., Lexington, KY (US);
Christopher D. Price, Georgetown, KY (US);
William M. Quinn, Lexington, KY (US);
Miles A. Palis, Lexington, KY (US);
Ronald E. Pontrich, Jr., Lexington, KY (US);
Christopher D. Price, Georgetown, KY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Described are an online meeting system and method for integrating a third-party system with the online meeting system. A service provider interface (SPI) defines procedures for communicating with a meeting services application of the online meeting system. Each software module implements the procedures of the SPI to perform meeting-related operations customized in accordance with the third-party system when called by the meeting service application. Called SPI procedures include two types. One type notifies a software module of a proposed transaction of an event in the online meeting system, to enable the software module to perform the meeting-related operation before the event occurs. A second type notifies a software module of an event that has occurred in the online meeting system, to enable the software module to perform the meeting-related operation in response to the occurrence of that event.