560 patents
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Utility
Expo Floor Layout
7 Sep 23
A system comprising for providing a virtual exposition floor where a first video conference and a second video conference may be established.
Andy Chan, Jeffrey Houng, Yuk Fai Lam, Pankaj Prasad
Filed: 24 Jan 22
Utility
Dynamic Noise and Speech Removal
7 Sep 23
Online audio and video conference applications can utilize a noise removal module to eliminate unwanted audio from a participant’s speech.
Jiachuan Deng, Cheng-Lun Hu, Zhaofeng Jia, Qiyong Liu, Qi Yang
Filed: 22 Mar 22
Utility
Engagement Analysis for Remote Communication Sessions
7 Sep 23
In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants; extracts utterances from the transcript; associates a subset of the utterances with a first group of speakers and the remaining subset of the utterances with a second group of speakers; calculates one or more statistical metrics for a number of engagement metrics based on the utterances of the first group of speakers and the utterances of the second group of speakers; assigns a weight to each of the engagement metrics; determines an engagement score for the communication session based on the assigned weights for the engagement metrics; and presents, to one or more users, the engagement score for the communication session.
Stephen Muchovej, Min Xiao-Devins
Filed: 2 Mar 22
Utility
System and Methods for Running Conference Applications Before, During, and after a Network Conference
7 Sep 23
System and methods for running conference applications before, during, and after a network conference.
Ross Douglas Mayfield, Yoshifumi Takebuchi
Filed: 10 May 23
Utility
Locking encrypted video conferences
5 Sep 23
One disclosed example method includes receiving, during a first encrypted video conference including a plurality of participants, a request to admit an additional participant to the encrypted video conference; determining whether the additional participant is one of the plurality of participants.
Max Krohn
Filed: 27 Jun 22
Utility
Transferring Data Using A Media Channel Selected Based On Condition Testing
31 Aug 23
Calls run through a virtual desktop infrastructure server are enhanced by testing communication network conditions and selecting, based on the test results, a media channel from a set of supported media channels, including a media channel that is routed through the virtual desktop infrastructure server and encapsulated in a protocol for exchanging data for virtual desktop applications and a more direct media channel that uses a network socket pair between a media server and a personal computing device and bypasses the virtual desktop infrastructure server.
Xingzhi Luo, Xiaofei Wang, Haibing Xu, Daoquan Ye
Filed: 3 May 23
Utility
Unread Landing Page
31 Aug 23
A system is disclosed, where a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a communications interface and a processor, communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium and the communications interface.
Ganna Isayeva, Youjin Jang, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze
Filed: 31 Jan 22
Utility
Motion-Based Frame Rate Adjustment For Network-Connected Conference Participants
31 Aug 23
During a conference, a first video stream is obtained from a first participant device connected to a local area network and a second video stream is obtained from a second participant device connected to the local area network.
Chi-chian Yu
Filed: 31 Jan 22
Utility
Immersive Scenes
31 Aug 23
One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device.
Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
Filed: 29 Dec 22
Utility
Signed contact lists for user authentication in video conferences
22 Aug 23
One example method includes connecting, by a first client device associated with a user, to a video conference hosted by a video conference provider, the video conference having a plurality of participants; receiving participant information for each participant of the plurality of participants; generating, for one or more of the participants, an identity record corresponding to the respective participant, the identity record including video conference information, at least a portion of the participant information, and a cryptographic signature; appending, for each generated identity record, the respective identity record to a user contact list; and verifying at least one participant of the plurality of participants based on the user contact list.
Karan Lyons
Filed: 27 Jan 22
Utility
Conference gallery view intelligence system
22 Aug 23
A conference gallery view intelligence system determines regions of interest for display within views of conferencing software based on input streams received from devices within a conference room during a conference.
Jeffrey William Smith, Chi-chian Yu
Filed: 28 Apr 21
Utility
Virtual environment interactivity for video communications participants
22 Aug 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
Restricting Media Access By Contact Center Agents During A User Verification Process
17 Aug 23
A contact center server enables a contact center engagement between a device of a contact center agent and a device of a contact center user.
Jiawei Chen, Peng Su
Filed: 13 Feb 22
Utility
Facial Expression Identification and Retargeting to an Avatar
17 Aug 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for training machine learning network to generate facial expression for rendering an avatar within a video communication platform representing a video conference participant.
Wenyu Chen, Chichen Fu, Qiang Li, Wenchong Lin, Bo Ling, Gengdai Liu
Filed: 17 Mar 22
Utility
Dynamic Note Generation In Communication Sessions
17 Aug 23
A note is dynamically generated with captured content from a communication session.
Thanh Le Nguyen, Shane Paul Springer
Filed: 25 Apr 23
Utility
Waiting notifications for videoconferencing sub-meetings
15 Aug 23
One example system for providing notifications to videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device.
Lin Han, Nitasha Walia, Yamin Wei
Filed: 19 Apr 22
Utility
Remotely adjusting audio capture during video conferences
15 Aug 23
One example method includes joining, by a first client device, a videoconferencing meeting hosted by a video conference provider, the videoconference meeting including a plurality of participants; providing an audio stream and a video stream to a video conference provider; receiving, from a second client device, an audio focus area associated with a video stream provided the first client device; determining, based on the audio focus area, a bounding region within an environment shown in the video stream; directing a microphone array to capture audio from the bounding region; and providing the captured audio as an audio stream to the video conference provider.
Shane Springer
Filed: 29 Oct 21
Utility
Intelligent detection of sensitive data within a communication platform
15 Aug 23
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media provide for the intelligent detection of sensitive information within a communication platform.
Shane Springer, Thomas Noble
Filed: 30 Jan 21
Utility
Removing Virtual Machine Identifiers From Packets
10 Aug 23
A server, includes a virtual machine identifier assigning section to assign an identifier of a virtual machine operating on the server; and a network interface to transmit a packet including a Layer 2 header information which includes the identifier of the virtual machine and a first packet field for a VLAN-Tag, wherein the network, interface transmits the packet to a packet encapsulate section which encapsulates a second packet field including the Layer 2 header information with a virtual network identifier representing a virtual network to which the virtual machine belongs.
Atsushi Iwata, Akio Iijima
Filed: 21 Apr 23
Utility
Communicating With Participants In Breakout Rooms
10 Aug 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: 19 Apr 23