Abstract: An asynchronous meeting system is presented that allows a meeting participant to seamlessly switch between live (synchronous) and recorded (asynchronous) meeting information. The asynchronous meeting system provides information to other meeting participants about the status of a meeting participant, including whether the meeting participant is viewing live or recorded meeting information. The asynchronous meeting system allows other meeting participants to notify the meeting participant when attention at the live meeting is desired. Thus, the asynchronous meeting system allows the meeting participant to more productively use his/her time at the meeting, but maintains the ability to have two-way, real-time communication that meeting participants expect.

Abstract: Techniques to auto-attend multimedia conference events are described. An apparatus may comprise a recording management component operative to manage recording and reproduction operations for a multimedia conference event. The recording management component may comprise, among other elements, an event handler module operative to receive an auto-attend request from a meeting invitee as an auto-attendee for a multimedia conference event. The recording management component may also include an event schedule module communicatively coupled to the event handler module, the event schedule module operative to schedule the multimedia conference event for automatic recording operations in response to the auto-attend request. The recording management component may further include an event capture module communicatively coupled to the event schedule module, the event capture module operative to record the multimedia conference event to form a recorded meeting event file for the auto-attendee.