Cisco Technology, Inc.

Binh Don Ha

Aseem Asthana

Shmuel Shaffer

Sravan Vadlakonda

Ashish P Chotai

Vineet Goel

Stephen Michael Orr

Manjunath Sreedhara Bangalore

Michael P Dimitroff

Anthony H Grieco

Feng Cao

Michael Alan Kowal

Radhika Padmanabhan

Selim Baygin

Sunil Kumar Veluvali

Catalina Kowal

Connie Tang

Ashish Chotai

A meeting server receives shared content from a presenter device in an online conference session with one or more attendee devices. The meeting server generates one or more digital watermarks corresponding to the one or more attendee devices. Each respective digital watermark includes an indication of the presenter device and an indication of a respective attendee device. The meeting server transmits the shared content with the respective digital watermark to the respective attendee device as part of the online conference session. The respective digital watermark is visible in the shared content displayed on the respective attendee device.

Controlling visibility and distribution of shared conferencing data

Media relay services are often used to establish sufficiently direct connections in order to enable provisioning of a real-time media service and/or improve the quality of real-time media services. However, media relay services are often gated using authentication systems that add undesirable delay to the delivery and/or access to a real-time media service, which in turn diminish the user experience. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include apparatuses, systems, and methods of providing low latency authentication of gated media relay services. For example, in some implementations, a method includes receiving a request for access to a gated media relay service, providing provisional access to the service until an authentication result is available, determining whether the requesting device is authorized to access the media relay service, and at least one of ending or continuing access to the media relay service based on the authentication result.

Low latency authentication of gated media relay services

A conferencing system and method includes, during the conference session, invoking an interactive voice response (IVR) routine that provides names of one or more conference participants to a user of an audio-only endpoint device responsive to a request from the user to create a sidebar session. An invitation to join the sidebar session is then communicated to each of one or more participants selected by the user, the invitation being communicated via a private media channel separate from a media stream associated with the conference session. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Method and apparatus for inviting non-rich media endpoints to join a conference sidebar session

A method of filtering telecommunication service includes receiving a call that includes a call identifier. The method also includes determining a filter status of the call and transmitting a notification message to a remote node. The notification message identifies the call identifier and the filter status of the call.

System and method for distributed IP telephony tracking

A processor-implemented method of operation for managing a push-to-talk (PTT) session involving a plurality of participants includes applying a first floor control algorithm at a PTT server. The first floor control algorithm being selected from a plurality of algorithms that arbitrate among talk requests received from the participants. The method further includes changing, during the PTT session, from the first floor control algorithm to a second floor control algorithm at the PPT server. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).

Floor control templates for use in push-to-talk applications

A conferencing system includes a plurality of ports for network connection to endpoint devices of participants to a conference session. A mixer receives input audio streams from the endpoint devices and then outputs a mixed audio stream back to the endpoint devices. A processor runs a program that automatically downgrades one or more of the participants to the conference session from a full-duplex communication mode to a half-duplex communication mode in response to an event affecting allocation of conferencing resources, the conferencing resources including the ports.

System and method for dynamically upgrading / downgrading a conference session

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Binh Don Ha