Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Blue Jeans Network, Inc.

Sonus Networks, Inc.

Ashish Nagpal

Alagu Periyannan

Krish Ramakrishnan

Mahabaleshwar Bhat

Satya Prakash Pati

Navneet Kumar

Pradeep Malhotra

Jaimin N Pancholi

Emmanuel Weber

Oded Gal

Ashish Sharma

Sourabh Khire

Anand Raghavan

Sunil George

Fardad Farahmand

Vikram Saksena

Tarun Nagpal

Harish Narayan Viswanathan

Peter Anton Verwayen

Sunil Menon

Nagesh Kumar Bollapalli Venkata

Nagesh S Shekar

Stu Aaron

Karthick Kaliannan Neelamohan

Omkar Ghodke

Sayali G Salvi

Gaurav Rihan

Harish Narayan

Arjun Cholkar

An illustrative virtual meeting management system associates a user device of a participant of a virtual meeting with a physical location from which the participant and one or more additional participants participate in the virtual meeting. The virtual meeting management system determines that the participant provides a user input via the user device during the virtual meeting. The user input indicates that the participant will speak. Based on the user input and the associating, the virtual meeting management system provides an active speaker indicator for presentation in a virtual meeting interface provided to one or more participants of the virtual meeting. The active speaker indicator specifies a participant identifier representative of the participant. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for identifying an active speaker in a virtual meeting

An exemplary method includes processing, by a virtual avatar processing system, a plurality of video conference recordings generated by a video conference platform to select user image information associated with a plurality of users that participated in video conference sessions represented in the plurality of video conference recordings. The exemplary method further includes generating, based on the user image information, a template model that is generic to a plurality of users, selecting, from the user image information and based on predefined selection criteria, video frames that depict a user included in the plurality of users, and generating a virtual avatar model of the user by applying the selected video frames to the template model. A visual representation of the virtual avatar model may be configured to be used in future video conference sessions in place of a live video image of the user.

Systems and methods for implementing a virtual avatar model for a video conference session

An illustrative virtual meeting management system associates a user device of a participant of a virtual meeting with a physical location from which the participant and one or more additional participants participate in the virtual meeting. The virtual meeting management system determines that the participant provides a user input via the user device during the virtual meeting. The user input indicates that the participant will speak. Based on the user input and the associating, the virtual meeting management system provides an active speaker indicator for presentation in a virtual meeting interface provided to one or more participants of the virtual meeting. The active speaker indicator specifies a participant identifier representative of the participant and a place identifier representative of the physical location from which the participant participates in the virtual meeting. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Disclosed is a system for analyzing and optimizing conference experiences. The system may identify parameters associated with a conference between a set of User Equipment ('UEs') used by different conference participants to access the conference. The system may compare the identified parameters to sets of parameters associated with a classification model. The system may identify, based on the comparing and the model output, a particular classification for the conference, and may calculate an impact of each conference parameter on the particular classification based on a particular parameter combination included in the model for the particular classification. The system may determine that a subset of the conference parameters has a larger impact on the particular classification than other conference parameters, may select one or more actions that are associated with the particular classification and the subset of parameters, and may perform the one or more actions.

Systems and methods for analyzing and optimizing conference experiences

A video conferencing may include a virtual whiteboard for displaying annotations and streaming of a physical whiteboard, indexing of physical whiteboard content, and compositing and projection of remote whiteboard content onto a local whiteboard.

System and methods for physical whiteboard collaboration in a video conference

Embodiments are described for provision of video conferencing with, for example, a virtual whiteboard for displaying annotations and streaming of a physical whiteboard, indexing of physical whiteboard content, and compositing and projection of remote whiteboard content onto a local whiteboard.

Embodiments are described for provision of video conference services. In some embodiments, a service connector module of a video conference system receives a request to switch a participant user of a video conference to a communication mode for the video conference received at a participant endpoint device, the request to switch is (a) a request to switch from an unidirectional communication mode to a bidirectional communication mode, or (b) a request to switch from the bidirectional communication mode to the unidirectional communication mode, determining information on at least one distribution capability from one or more interactions with the participant endpoint device, determines a distribution scheme for the communication mode using the at least one distribution capability, sends a request to establish a connection with the endpoint device using the distribution scheme, receives a notification on establishment of the connection, and sends a request to terminate a prior connection.

Provision of video conference services

Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products for utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information for a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) device. A wireless access gateway (WAG) determines location information of the VOIP device and stores the location information. A request for a location of the VOIP device from a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) is received by the WAG. The WAG translates the stored location information into a format used by the MSC to receive location information from a Radio Access Network (RAN). The WAG provides the translated location information to the MSC.

Utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information of a voice over internet protocol device

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for personal service integration on a network. A personal service monitors and stores user requests for services. The stored user requests are processed to determine usage patterns. The personal service processes the usage patterns to determine future requests and/or to determine how to fulfill a request. The personal service processes the request.

Personal service integration on a network

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