Patent ID: 6105055
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A system for asynchronous multimedia collaboration comprising:a delayed conference manager for providing centralized management of asynchronous conferences, the delayed conference manager comprising means for generating index data representing the structure and correspondence of dynamic annotation data associated with user contributions to a given asynchronous conference;an email server connected to said delayed conference manager for receiving email messages having the dynamic annotation data of user contributions, wherein the delayed conference manager further comprises means for downloading the email messages from the email server and extracting the dynamic annotation data;a conference base connected to said delayed conference manager for storing the index data and the extracted dynamic annotation data;a web server connected to said conference base for accessing the dynamic annotation data;a message base connected to said delayed conference manager for storing user contribution data associated with the given asynchronous conference; anda newsgroup server connected to said message base for posting titles of user contributions to the given asynchronous conference.