Public collaboration system

摘要

A meeting management system for managing the conduct of a meeting online provides the functionality to arrange order of the presenters during a meeting (208), to show the participants in the meeting (206-213) and the content presented by them (216), the 5 relative order of the participants as regards the meeting progress, the timeline of the meeting, and to legally record the total proceedings of the meeting. The participants appear as a rotatable “carousel” of icons.

主权项

1. A computerized method of managing a video conference and presenting video conference management information, comprising:
providing a moderator interface on a display device, the interface simultaneously displays conference information in a prescribed manner, including:
a first display region within the interface that presents conference content provided to participants of the conference, andan icon bar within the interface that depicts a plurality of icons in a prioritized order comprising at least one speaker icon and thereafter icons for other participants of the conference, the speaker icons are arranged in an order that corresponds to the order of presentation within the conference; and authorizing the speakers to present in the prescribed order set forth in the icon bar, wherein the moderator can assign the prescribed order of the speaker through the moderator interface.