Sharing notes in online meetings

摘要

Notes may be shared in an online meeting with online meeting attendees through a software application associated with organizing an online meeting, for example, online meeting software, calendaring software, note-taking software, or the like. Notes may be created and/or shared before, during, and/or after the online meeting by meeting attendees. Meeting attendees may be notified when notes are shared for the online meeting. Notes may be shared with items of the software application associated with organizing the online meeting. For example, notes may be shared in online meeting software with the online meeting. Notes may be shared among items of different software applications, for example, notes shared in the online meeting software may be automatically shared with a calendar item in a calendaring software application.

主权项

1. A method executed in a computing device to facilitate note sharing in an online meeting, the method comprising:
upon detecting activation of a meeting notes control, providing, in a separate meeting notes page that shows currently shared notes, one or more notes for selection, wherein the one or more notes for selection include at least one from a set of: existing shared notes, existing notes not currently shared, an option to modify an existing note, an option to create a new note, an option to remove existing notes, and an option to search for a note for sharing; detecting selection of one or more shareable notes; inserting identifier information associated with the online meeting to data associated with the selected shareable notes, wherein the identifier information includes one or more of: a unique identifier number, a code, and a name; populating the meeting notes page associated with the online meeting with meeting information and the selected shareable notes; adding metadata with information about the selected shareable notes to the meeting notes page and to a meeting invitation; adding the online meeting including the metadata about the selected shareable notes to a calendar as a calendar item, wherein the calendar item displays a control to permit a user to access, share, and create the meeting notes; sharing the meeting notes page with one or more meeting attendees during the online meeting rendering the selected shareable notes available to the meeting attendees; and enabling invitees of the online meeting to add invitee-added notes to the online meeting to be shared through a lookup table, wherein an owner of the online meeting is enabled to approve invitee-added notes prior to updating the online meeting to reflect the invitee-added notes.