Apple Inc.

Chieh Lu

Daniel Ben Pollack

Christopher M Garrido

Karthick Santhanam

Jingyao Zhang

Padmavathy Bhooma

Erik Vladimir Ortega Gonzalez

Bradley F Patterson

Kevin Arthur Robertson

David L Biderman

Dazhong Zhang

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Hsien-Po Shiang

Qian Sun

Jose A Lozano Hinojosa

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

Nelson M Leduc

Alexis Allison Iskander

Xudong Liu

Justin R Etzine

Elliot T Garner

Huan He

Wan-Ya Chen

Jinbo Qui

Igor Kobzar

Russel S Greer

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, participant devices in a conferencing session may be provided with the ability to expel one or more other participant devices from the conferencing session, even when the participant device(s) are not hosts or cohosts of the conferencing session. A participant device may be expellable by another participant device based on a connection mechanism by which the participant device is connected to the conferencing session, and/or based on an amount of time since the participant device joined the conferencing session.

Electronic conferencing

A device implementing a system for multipath connection management may include first and second local communication interfaces, and a processor configured to establish a primary connection for communicating between the first local communication interface and a first remote communication interface of an other device, and a secondary connection for communicating between the second local communication interface and a second remote communication interface. The processor may be configured to transmit application and control data over the primary connection and concurrently transmit a copy of control data over the secondary connection. The processor may be configured to determine that a degradation of the quality of the primary connection is attributable to the other device. The processor may be configured to switch the secondary connection to the first local communication interface and the second remote communication interface. The processor may be configured to transmit a copy of the application and control data over the secondary connection.

Multi-path connection management

Participant systems in an audiovisual (AV) conferencing can, in one embodiment, use methods to ensure that all participants have a common platform to support AV conferencing, such as a common codec, and also attempt to provide higher quality AV conferencing (e.g., better than the common codec) based on available bandwidth and other criteria. The participant systems can use the common codec as a fallback platform when bandwidth or other criteria dictate a reduction in the quality of the AV conferencing. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

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Chieh Lu