MULTIMEDIA USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING A NETWORK BASED MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE

摘要

A graphical multimedia user interface is disclosed that employs a real life meeting room metaphor that provides a user experience in which the users point of view is that of being physically brought into a real life meeting room. Specifically, the graphical multimedia user interface provides a display to the user that places him or her outside the meeting room prior to entry and a real life animation sequence (including audio components) that upon successful user authentication provides an intuitively natural perception of the user being physically transported through dynamically opening doors into the meeting room and, finally, above a conferencetable. To this end, the graphical multimedia user interface leads, i.e., prompts, the user through the necessary sequence of events in accessing a virtual meeting in an intuitively natural manner. The advantage of this graphical multimedia user interface is the full use of the real life meeting room metaphor and enhancing the ease of use thereof.