Patent ID: 8117262

Claim:
A method comprising: requesting an application associated with a particular area during a collaboration session for use in the collaboration session, wherein one of a first participant device and a second participant device operates as a presenter device and presents at least one of audio, video, graphical and textual content to the other participant device that operates as an attendee device during the collaboration session; reviewing, by a processor, a plurality of user profiles, each user profile associated with a user, to search for one or more users with an expertise in the particular area, the reviewing yielding one or more matching user profiles of users with expertise in the particular area; detecting, by the processor, one or more applications, indicated in the one or more matching user profiles of users with expertise in the particular area; and ranking application based on the one or more applications indicated in the one or more matching user profiles with expertise in the particular area, the ranked applications presented for inclusion in the collaboration session for use by a user of a participant device during the collaboration session.