Patent ID: 8719092
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically directing information to a plurality of computer users using a plurality of computers to access a computerized interactive multi-user whiteboard which enables contributions of any participant to be received by other participants in effective real time, the method comprising: enabling said plurality of computer users using said plurality of computers to access said computerized interactive multi-user whiteboard; automatically monitoring, using at least one server, interactions among said plurality of computer users using said plurality of computers via said computerized interactive multi-user whiteboard; automatically analyzing, at said at least one server, results of said monitoring to ascertain at least one shared characteristic of said plurality of computer users, said automatically analyzing including identifying at least one common interest of said plurality of computer users by: identifying a whiteboard toolbox being accessed by said plurality of computer users; ascertaining a subject and level of said whiteboard toolbox being accessed by said plurality of computer users; loading at least one of keystrokes and text entries into at least one matrix which contains at least keystrokes and keywords; and employing said at least one matrix to ascertain said at least one common interest; and employing the results of said analyzing to selectively direct non-user originated information from said at least one server to said plurality of computer users using said plurality of computers while said plurality of computer users is accessing said computerized interactive multi-user whiteboard using said plurality of computers.