Patent ID: 9473449
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for communicating in a collaborative application with portable and fixed computer based hardware, comprising: directly connecting, for an event, a set of co-located computerized devices, which includes a first computer device having a first operating platform and a second computer device having a second operating platform, into a closed local network via a co-located server having a first connection method and a second connection method, the first computer device connecting to the server via the first connection method and the second computer device connecting to the server via the second connection method; establishing, by the server, a terminal connection with each of the set of computerized devices for the event in response to an access, by each of the set of computerized devices, to a main server software package on the server; forming a computer network, which includes all of the set of computerized devices that have established the terminal connection, for the event that makes each of the set of computerized devices in the computer network automatically aware of all others of the set of computerized devices in the computer network; enabling direct file sharing, data access, data transfer and communications functionality between all of the set of computerized devices in the computer network during the event, the functionality being independent of a set of platforms of the set of computerized devices; automatically aggregating, after the event has concluded, integrated data gathered in real time during the event into an event summary, the integrated data including multimedia presentation data for the event, a summary that corresponds to the multimedia presentation data and that is automatically generated from portions of the presentation audio of the event converted to text, and notes that correspond to the multimedia presentation data, the notes being taken during the event on the first and second computer devices by users of the first and second computer devices; measuring, using a location beacon, a measured signal strength corresponding to each of the set of computerized devices during the event, all of the set of computerized devices being located in a common meeting area; plotting, at the server, location information that includes a relative location of the each of the set of computerized devices based on the corresponding measured signal strength; maintaining attendance and defining boundaries of the common meeting area based on the location information; generating, using the server in response to a request by a user of a computerized device, a three-dimensional visual representation of a physical room forming the common meeting area that includes a triangulated relative position of each of the set of users and the network within the common meeting area built specifically for the user of the computerized device of the set of connection devices based on the plotting; providing the visual representation to the user of the computerized device; allowing the user of the computerized device of the set of connection devices to access the visual representation of the each of the set of users and the network from a point of view of the user and to indicate a location of the user within the virtual representation; and rotating, in response to a request by the user, the visual representation with respect to the indicated location.