560 patents
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Utility
Moving content between breakout rooms
30 May 23
A meeting host or moderator can control communications among participants in virtual breakout rooms without requiring the host to join a breakout room as a participant.
Nick Swerdlow
Filed: 16 Aug 22
Utility
Verifying User Identities for Admission to Video Conferences
25 May 23
One example method for controlling online meeting attendance includes obtaining meeting information associated with a meeting, the meeting information comprising a meeting identifier; receiving, by a video conferencing system from a client device, a request to join the meeting, the request comprising the meeting identifier; receiving a user identifier corresponding to a user; accessing a set of guest identifiers corresponding to a plurality of meeting guests invited to the meeting; determining that the user is a meeting guest of the plurality of meeting guests based on the user identifier and a correspondence to a guest identifier of the set of guest identifier, wherein the user identifier is not in the set of guest identifiers; and responsive to determining that the user is a meeting guest of the plurality of meeting guests, connecting the client device to the meeting.
Shawn Michael ROLIN, Brendan James Ittelson
Filed: 23 Jan 23
Utility
Intelligent Configuration of Conferencing Devices
25 May 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media provide for the intelligent configuration of endpoint devices for video conferencing.
Shane Springer
Filed: 23 Jan 23
Utility
Content Monitoring for Virtual Meeting Rooms
25 May 23
One example system for providing virtual meeting room content monitoring for a host of a videoconference includes a processor and at least one memory device.
Lin Han, Nitasha Walia, Tain Barzso
Filed: 9 Jan 23
Utility
Inbound Call Routing In An Integrated Voice And Video Platform
25 May 23
Voice and video features of a software platform are integrated to enable customization of software services of the software platform on a customer-basis.
Walter F. C. Anderson, Brendan James Ittelson
Filed: 11 Jan 23
Utility
System and Method for Active-Active Standby in Phone System Management
18 May 23
Active-active standby is maintained for communication sessions using web connections between two active session zones and a standby session zone, for example, in the event of a failure.
Yong Yang, Hongjian Zhao, Lei Zheng
Filed: 5 Jan 23
Utility
Audio capture device selection for remote conference participants
16 May 23
A microphone of a primary client device is used to capture audio for a remote conference participant.
Chi-chian Yu
Filed: 31 Jan 22
Utility
Interactions with objects within video layers of a video conference
16 May 23
Interactions with objects depicted within video streams displayed during a video conference are detected to cause information associated with the interacted objects to be presented.
Graeme Lambourne Geddes, Brendan James Ittelson, Shawn Michael Rolin
Filed: 28 Oct 22
Utility
Enabling Breakout Rooms In Webinars
11 May 23
One example method includes transmitting a message to a first client device indicating a transition to a first sub-meeting of a webinar, the first client device connected to a main meeting of the webinar and associated with a first participant, receiving, from the first client device, a request for access information to join the first sub-meeting; transmitting the access information for the first sub-meeting to the first client device, receiving, from the first client device, a request to join the first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information for the first sub-meeting, and joining the first client device to the first sub-meeting.
Lin HAN
Filed: 13 Jan 23
Utility
Location Determination and Telephone Number Distribution for Emergency Calls
11 May 23
Location determination and telephone number distribution for emergency calls is enabled by a telephony system which maintains multiple pools of telephone numbers.
Walter F. C. Anderson, Vi Dinh Chau
Filed: 5 Jan 23
Utility
Transmitting Conference Application Content During a Network Conference
11 May 23
System and methods for transmitting conference application content during a network conference.
Ross Douglas Mayfield, Yoshifumi Takebuchi
Filed: 13 Jul 22
Utility
Conference Service Number System
11 May 23
A conference service number system enables the reconfiguration of an existing telephone number as a service number usable for selectively routing calls to each of a client endpoint and a dedicated conference software instance.
Walter F. C. Anderson, Vi Dinh Chau
Filed: 29 Dec 22
Utility
Delivery of Voicemails to Handheld Devices
11 May 23
Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail.
Michael Demmitt, Amit Manna, Michael Smith, Luis Arellano, Chris Pedregal, Mike LeBeau, Brian Salomaki
Filed: 14 Jul 22
Utility
Delivery of Voicemails to Handheld Devices
11 May 23
Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail.
Michael Demmitt, Amit Manna, Michael Smith, Luis Arellano, Chris Pedregal, Mike LeBeau, Brian Salomaki
Filed: 14 Jul 22
Utility
Unique watermark generation and detection during a conference
9 May 23
The unique watermark system comprising: identifying a presenter attendee, a first recipient attendee, and a second recipient attendee through a video conferencing session; detecting the presenter attendee sharing the visual content with the first recipient attendee and the second recipient attendee; selecting a first unique watermark and a second unique watermark from the plurality of unique watermarks and assigning them to a first recipient attendee and a second recipient attendee, respectively; inserting the first unique watermark into the visual content for the first recipient attendee and the second unique watermark into the visual content for the second recipient attendee; and transmitting the visual content with the first unique watermark to the first recipient attendee and the visual content with the second unique watermark to the second recipient attendee, wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices for hosting the video conferencing session.
Zheng Yuan
Filed: 6 Nov 20
Utility
Virtual Environment Interactivity for Video Communications Participants
4 May 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for virtual environment interactivity for video communications participants.
Jordan Thiel
Filed: 31 Oct 21
Utility
In-meeting Follow-up Schedulers for Video Conferences
4 May 23
One method for in-meeting follow-up schedulers for video conferences includes joining, by a client device using a video conferencing application, a video conference hosted by a video conference provider; receiving, by the video conferencing application, a selection of a subset of participants in the video conference; receiving, by the video conferencing application, meeting information associated with a follow-up video conference; generating, by the video conferencing application, a meeting invitation to each participant of the subset of participants based on the received meeting information; scheduling, by the video conferencing application, the follow-up video conference with the video conference provider; and providing, by the video conferencing application, the meeting invitation to each participant of the subset of participants.
Randy OH
Filed: 29 Oct 21
Utility
Head Tracking for Video Communications In a Virtual Environment
4 May 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for head tracking for video communications in a virtual environment.
Jordan Thiel
Filed: 31 Oct 21
Utility
Authentication of Video Communications In a Virtual Environment
4 May 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for authentication of video communications in a virtual environment.
Jordan Thiel
Filed: 31 Oct 21
Utility
Automated Rearrangement Of Digital Whiteboard Content
4 May 23
Content items are rearranged within a digital collaboration space (e.g., a digital whiteboard) based on category metadata determined for the content items using one or more learning models.
Raghavendra Bhagavatha, Alicia Kepner, Stephen Newton, Ihor Shadko, Jeffrey William Smith, Jordan Thiel
Filed: 31 Oct 21