公开(公告)号：EP3135032A4

公开(公告)日：2017-12-20

申请号：EP15783535

申请日：2015-04-21

申请人： MINERVA PROJECT INC

发明人： BADER-NATAL ARI ,  FIELDS BRIAN ,  REGAN MATTHEW M ,  KATZMAN JONATHAN S ,  KOSSLYN STEPHEN ,  TILLEY BRANDON ,  HALLMAN GENE ,  ANDERSON AVERY ,  MORRISON JASON

IPC分类号： H04N7/14 ,  H04L12/18

CPC分类号： H04L65/1096 ,  H04L12/1813 ,  H04L12/1822 ,  H04L12/1827 ,  H04L65/1093 ,  H04L65/403 ,  H04N7/147 ,  H04N7/15 ,  H04N7/157

摘要： A virtual conferencing system is described for implementing a speaker queue. For example, one embodiment of the virtual conferencing system comprises: a plurality of clients, each of the clients comprising state management logic to maintain a current state of a virtual conference; a virtual conferencing service to establish audio and/or video connections between the plurality of clients during the virtual conference, the virtual conferencing service further including a state synchronization service communicatively coupled to the state management logic on each client to ensure that the current state of the virtual conference is consistent on each client; wherein the current state on each client includes a speaker queue comprising an ordered set of participants to be designated as current speakers during the virtual conference, wherein participants are added to the speaker queue in response to input provided by the participants indicating a desire to be a current speaker, wherein one or more participants towards the top of the speaker queue are designated to be current speakers, wherein participants are initially added to the bottom of the speaker queue and are moved towards the top of the speaker queue as other participants are removed from the top of the speaker queue; a virtual conferencing graphical user interface (GUI) to display a video stream of one or more current speakers within one or more current speaker regions, the virtual conferencing GUI further providing a visual representation of the speaker queue to each of the participants, the visual representation comprising an ordered representation of each of the participants in the speaker queue.

公开(公告)号：EP3189622A4

公开(公告)日：2018-06-13

申请号：EP15837998

申请日：2015-09-04

申请人： MINERVA PROJECT INC

发明人： BADER-NATAL ARI ,  TILLEY BRANDON ,  KOSSLYN STEPHEN MICHAEL ,  KATZMAN JONATHAN SCOTT ,  REGAN MATTHEW MICHAEL ,  NELSON BEN ,  FIELDS BRIAN ,  FISHMAN NICKYTA ,  OZASLAN EYLEM

IPC分类号： H04L12/18 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/10 ,  H04N7/15

CPC分类号： H04L65/4038 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06Q10/101 ,  H04L65/1089 ,  H04L65/1093 ,  H04L65/4015 ,  H04L65/403 ,  H04N7/148 ,  H04N7/15 ,  H04N7/152

摘要： A virtual conferencing system is described which evaluates and selects participants for active participation based on one or more criteria. For example, one embodiment of virtual conferencing system comprises: a plurality of clients operated by participants and at least one moderator of a virtual conference, each of the clients comprising state management logic to maintain a current state of the virtual conference; a virtual conferencing service to establish audio and/or video connections between the plurality of clients during the virtual conference, the virtual conferencing service further including a state synchronization service communicatively coupled to the state management logic on each client to ensure that the current state of the virtual conference is consistent on each client; a virtual conferencing graphical user interface (GUI) to be rendered on the plurality of clients, the virtual conferencing GUI configured, via signals sent from the state synchronization service, to display a video stream of one or more current speakers during the virtual conference utilizing the established video connections; and a decision support module to evaluate the participants according to one or more criteria in the virtual conference and to select a subset of the set of participants as candidates to actively participate in the virtual conference based on the evaluation.