METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAUNCHING A COLLABORATION AMONG TELECONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

摘要

The application relates to automatically forming a concurrent collaboration with an existing audio conference. Collaboration refers to collaboration software used to share PC desktop applications. In the operation of the invention, when three or more people are in a audio or audio/video teleconference it is often desirable to launch a PC application in order to discuss or illustrate a point. This application describes a technique for a single conference participant to launch a collaboration session among conference participants. The problem is solved in that a database associates audio nodes or parties' audio addresses of a network with their corresponding computing addresses. The computing nodes (PC) and audio nodes (PHONE) can be on completely separate networks (VOICE NETWORK, DATABASE NETWORK), as long as the database (DATABASE) can communicate on each. A collaboration application on a computing node (PC) initiates a query to the audio bridge of the audio/video teleconference (CONFERENCE HOST) for the audio addresses of conference participants. Subsequently, the application sends a query to the database (3) which retrieves the corresponding computing addresses which are used to send collaboration session info to the corresponding computing nodes thereby forming a collaboration session.