Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a communications session between a first endpoint that displays a shared desktop and a second endpoint that has a display screen, identifying an active region that is part of the shared desktop, and providing an interface on the second endpoint that obtains an input that indicates whether a representation of the active region is to be automatically displayed on the display screen. An input is obtained, and it is determined when the input indicates that the representation is to be automatically displayed on the display screen in response to the input. If the input indicates that the representation is to be automatically displayed on the display screen, the representation is displayed on the display screen. The representation is automatically displayed on the display screen such that substantially only the representation is displayed on the display screen.

Abstract: In one example embodiment, a method is provided and includes monitoring a display status associated with a client device that is participating in a meeting being conducted over a network (wired, wireless, etc.). The method also includes reporting the display status to a server associated with the meeting. For example, the server could be responsible for controlling at least a portion of meeting resources for the client device (or the client device itself could include software to perform these management functions). The method also includes receiving reduced meeting resources based, at least in part, on the display status.

Abstract: An example method is provided and includes receiving conversation precondition information associated with a meeting session in a network environment, determining, after a beginning of the meeting session, conversation precondition status information of at least one collaboration criteria indicated by the conversation precondition information, and causing a meeting client program to provide a representation of the conversation precondition status information.

Abstract: A business process management (BPM) data processing system can be provided. The system can include a business process modeler executing in memory of a host server and a process generation engine coupled to the business process modeler and configured to generate an executable business process execution model from a business process model defined by the business process modeler. The system further can include a monitoring generation engine coupled to the business process modeler and configured to generate an executable monitoring model using business measures mapped to emittable events in the executable business process execution model and using logic enabled to compute metrics for the business measures from data in the events, both the business measures and logic being defined separately from and irrespective of the business process model.