KR19980031722A - How to Write Meeting Minutes for Multi-party Conference System - Google Patents

Abstract

The disclosed contents are related to a multi-party conference system. To compensate for the disadvantages of the existing telewriting device, the data on the telewriting device is stored as it is stored together with the terminal ID number and the data object indicating which meeting participant has occurred. The present invention relates to a method of creating minutes for a multiparty conference system that can be used for minutes. The present invention creates a list of meeting participants consisting of the terminal ID number and name, a simple profile, etc. of the meeting participants in the existing telewriting device, and the terminal has changed the data such as the generation, deletion, modification, etc. of the data generated during the meeting It can be stored with ID number to view the data in various ways. In addition, it provides the advantage that the minutes can be easily managed by adding the function to show the information about the specific object created during the meeting and the information about the data generated by the specific meeting attendees.

Description

How to Write Meeting Minutes for Multi-party Conference System

The present invention relates to a multi-party conference system, and in particular, to record and store data generated during a multi-party conference through a telewriting device, and to create a meeting record for a multi-party conference system that can view the stored data through various user interfaces. It is about.

A multi-party conference system is a system that allows two or more people to watch a video together or share a document together using a telewriting device through multiple terminals having a video telephone function. Here, the telewriting refers to the screen display of the other party by transmitting the character data and the picture data input by the user using a terminal for inputting picture data or text data, a screen display device, and a data transmission device. It means to communicate with each other by displaying on the device. An example of such a technique is US Patent No. 4,424,572 Device for the digital transmission and display of graphics and / or of characters on a screen.

Since the conventional telewriting apparatus as described above has only functions such as data transmission and recording of text data, the contents of added data and deleted data during the meeting cannot be known. That is, it is not known which addition or deletion of data occurred from which meeting participant, and records only the modified result. Therefore, the conventional telelighting device has many shortcomings in recording the data generated during the conference.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a multi-party conference system that can use the data on the telewriting device as it is to record the information indicating which meeting attendees have been added to the data to compensate for the shortcomings of the above-described telewriting device. Provide a way to write minutes.

1 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for recording meeting minutes for a multi-party conference system applied to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a database data structure for databaseting a participant list during a multi-party conference and a storage data structure for storing generated objects; FIG.

3 and 4 are screen state diagrams for explaining an embodiment of a user interface applied to the present invention.

※ Explanation of code for main part of drawing

10: input unit 20: screen display unit

30: central processing unit 40: storage unit

50: transmission unit

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem is in a multi-party conference system including a telewriting device, a meeting participant list creation step of collecting information on the meeting participant to create a meeting participant list database, generation during the progress of the meeting A method of creating a meeting record for a multi-party conference system including a generated data storing step of storing the collected individual data together with a terminal number of the conference attendee who generated the individual data, and a display of a meeting log displaying the stored data by a user interface. .

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a telewriting device applied to the present invention. The telewriting device includes an input unit 10 for inputting text data or picture data. In addition, the telewriting device includes a storage unit 40 for storing the picture data and the text data input through the input unit 10 for each object, and the other terminal through the screen display unit 20 and the communication network for displaying the text or picture data. And a transmission unit 50 capable of exchanging documents of text and image data. The central processing unit 30 is configured to control each unit constituting the telewriting device. In FIG. 1, the input unit 10 may be a tablet, a light pen, a mouse, a keyboard, or the like. As the screen display unit 20, a general monitor or a TV receiver may be used. The screen display unit 20 displays data input by the user through the input unit 10 or data transmitted through the communication network from the other party's telewriting device. In the case of a multi-party conference using such a telewriting device, the telewriting device may be a kind of meeting record to record the speaker's remarks, modify or annotate materials, and the like.

First, at the start of a video conference, the central processing unit 30 collects information on the conference participants to construct a video conference participant list database. We will show an example in which the structure of this list database is written in C ++ code.

typedef struct ManListTag

{

int nTerminalID; // number of terminal assigned to attendee

CString szName; // name of attendee

CString szFileName; // file name where participant's image is saved

CString szMemo; // note the simple profile

};

The central processing unit 30 generates a database data structure consisting of a terminal number assigned to the participant, a participant's name, a file name storing the participant's image, a notepad with a brief profile, and the like using the data structure as described above. To be stored in the storage unit 40 (see FIG. 2 (a)). Since the structure of such data is an embodiment for implementing the present invention, the structure of the list database may be changed in various ways.

As described above, when the preparation of the meeting participant list database is completed, the meeting starts. During the conference, the attendees input text or picture data using the input unit (keyboard, mouse, light pen, etc.) 10. The input data is displayed on the screen display unit 20 by the central processing unit 30. The central processing unit 30 stores the terminal numbers of the conference attendees who generated the data together with the data displayed on the screen display unit 20. The following is an example written in C ++ showing an example of a rectangular object, which is one of the data types that can occur during a multi-party conference.

typedef struct Recttag

{

CRect rc; // record the coordinates of the rectangle, left, right, top and bottom

int nClor; // square color

int nThick; // rectangle border thickness

： // Other information

：

int nTerminalID; // terminal number of the attendee who created the rectangle

};

By adding the terminal number of the conference participant who created the data object to the data storage structure of the data object (see FIG. 2 (b)), the conference participant who created the data can be known.

According to the present invention, information about the data generated by adding the first user interface is displayed on the screen display unit 20. The first user interface allows a participant to know which of the data objects stored in the storage unit 40 has generated a particular object. This first user interface will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

3 is a screen state diagram of displaying data displayed on the screen display unit 20. An embodiment when a participant who has generated the rectangular object shown in FIG. 3 is to be known will be described. First, a rectangular object is selected (A) as a device such as a mouse. Then, a screen menu B showing a plurality of pieces of information of the selected object A stored in the storage 40 is displayed. When user information is selected from this menu, the central processing unit 30 searches for the terminal data of the data structure of the object (see FIG. 2 (b)) and the list data matching the terminal number in the pre-stored conference attendee list database. Find the participant who created the object. When the central processing unit 30 finds the corresponding meeting participant, the central processing unit 30 displays the name and simple profile of the meeting participant stored in the database structure.

The present invention adds a second user interface to find information about the data generated by a particular participant. First, a screen (see FIG. 4A) showing a list of meeting participants is configured and displayed on the screen display unit 20. Then, a specific participant is selected on the displayed screen. The central processing unit 30 uses the terminal number of the particular participant to find the corresponding data having the terminal number among the data stored in the storage unit 40 and display the corresponding data on the screen display unit 20. At this time, a predetermined mark ('M' in FIG. 4 (b)) is assigned to the material generated by a specific person, and displayed, thereby allowing the user to recognize the data at a glance.

As described above, the present invention creates a list of meeting participants consisting of the terminal ID, name, simple profile, etc. of the meeting participants in the existing telewriting device, and the data such as creation, deletion, modification, etc. of the data generated during the meeting. You can view the data in a variety of ways when reading the minutes by saving the change with the ID number. In addition, it provides the advantage of easily managing meeting minutes by adding the function to show the information about the specific object created during the meeting, the information showing the information generated by the specific meeting attendees.

Claims (4)

In a multi-party conference system including a telewriting device, A meeting participant list creation step of collecting information on the meeting participant and creating a meeting participant list database; A generation data storage step of storing together the entity data generated during the conference and the terminal number of the conference participant who generated the entity data; Meeting minutes creation method for a multi-party conference system comprising the step of displaying the meeting log display the stored data by the user interface. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user interface searches for the list data corresponding to the terminal number in the conference participant list database by referring to the terminal number in the data structure of the stored entity and the name of the conference attendee recorded in the data. Meeting minutes writing method for a multi-party conference system characterized by displaying a simple profile. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface displays a screen showing a list of attendees attending the multi-party conference, and selects a specific attendee from the displayed screen to display the objects of all materials generated by the selected person on the screen Minutes recording method for a multi-party conference system, characterized in that. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein when displaying the objects of all materials generated by the selected conference attendees, a special mark is attached to distinguish the objects of the materials generated by other conference attendees. Way.