Patent ID: 9225936
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G10L,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a computer system for annotating during a web conference, wherein the web conference is carried out via a web conference application in which at least one page of a presentation is shared remotely between at least a first user and a second user during the web conference, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, with the computer system, spoken input from at least the first and second users; transcribing, with the computer system, the received spoken input from the first user into first user transcribed text; transcribing, with the computer system, the received spoken input from the second user into second user transcribed text; analyzing, with the computer system, the page to identify a location of at least one feature of the page; correlating, with the computer system, a plurality of first user text elements from the first user transcribed text to the feature of the page; correlating, with the computer system, a plurality of second user text elements from the second user transcribed text to the feature of the page; annotating, with the computer system, the page by displaying in the vicinity of the location of the feature the correlated first user text elements; and annotating, with the computer system, the page by displaying in the vicinity of the location of the feature the correlated second user text elements; wherein the location is an X-Y coordinate location; wherein the annotating associated with the first user text elements displays a plurality of annotations; wherein the annotating associated with the second user text elements displays a plurality of annotations; and wherein the annotations are displayed in a threaded manner for each of the first user and the second user in a synchronous order and such that each subsequent annotation is displayed at least partially overlapping a previous annotation.