Abstract:
Techniques are presented to enable a meeting participant/attendee at an endpoint device in an online/web-based meeting/conference to navigate content of a presentation made by a presenter without disrupting the flow of the presentation made by the presenter. At the endpoint of a meeting attendee, data is stored representing content as it is being presented by a presenter at a presenter endpoint device. A command is received from an attendee at the attendee endpoint device to display previously presented content of the presentation. The attendee endpoint device retrieves data for the previously presented content from the stored data. During the presentation (but without disrupting the presenter's presentation of the content), the attendee endpoint device displays the previously presented content from the retrieved data.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes: facilitating an online conference session between a plurality of client devices connected to a meeting server; storing information related to one or more backup client devices, the one or more backup client devices corresponding to client devices that accepted to share their computing resources, and the information comprising, for each of the one or more backup client devices a network address and an amount of available computing resources; receiving, from a client device connected to the meeting server, a request to identify a backup client device operative to process data in place of the client device; and, in response to the request, using the stored information to identify at least one backup client device from the one or more backup client devices, the at least one backup client device having sufficient computing resources available to process the data.