Appeal No. 2005-1132
Application No. 09/738,294
The disclosed invention pertains to methods and systems
for facilitating collaboration among geographically-dispersed
team members using a distributed application that provides a
virtual team environment. In accordance with the invention,
dynamically maintained presence and availability information
respecting each member of the team for communications over at
least a Switched Telephone Network (STN) is obtained.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of initiating communications using a persistent
virtual team environment instantiated by a collaboration
services suite for facilitating collaboration between
members of a team, the method comprising steps of:
obtaining dynamically maintained presence and
availability information respecting each member of the
team for communications over at least a Switched
Telephone Network (STN);
providing a graphical interface adapted to enable a
person to interact with the virtual team environment to
select each one of: a personal identifier associated with
a respective team member, and one of the plurality of
different types of communications; and
initiating a new communications session using the
selected personal identifier and type of the
communications.
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