Anticipatory Environment for Collaboration and Data Sharing

摘要

A collaborative environment adapts to and anticipates users' needs based on presence of participants, proximity, context, in order to facilitate interaction among participants. An aspect of the collaborative environment includes multifactor user recognition.

主权项

1. A method in a computer system to facilitate interactions among users in a conference area comprising operating the computer system to perform steps of:
storing in a first data store a plurality of device information for a corresponding plurality of user devices, the plurality of device information including device identification (ID) data that identify the corresponding user devices and user ID data that identify users associated with the corresponding user devices; receiving device ID data from a plurality of first user devices, the plurality of first user devices being a subset of the plurality of user devices; using the device ID data received from the first user devices to access corresponding device information from the first data store; using identification information obtained from the accessed device information to create a list of candidate users who are associated with the first user devices; receiving sensed biometric information representative of a first user from one or more sensory devices deployed about the conference area; accessing a second data store having stored thereon a plurality of biometric information for a corresponding plurality of users to access biometric information of only those users who are in the list of candidate users; and comparing the sensed biometric information against the accessed biometric information to identity the first user.