Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dhigha D Sekaran

Sankaran Narayanan

Krishnan Ananthanarayanan

Vadim Eydelman

Bimal Kumar Mehta

Deepak Rao

Amey Parandekar

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Mahendra D Sekaran

Srivatsa K Srinivasan

Anton W Krantz

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Amit Kumar Dutta

Pulin Thakkar

Anand Srinivasan

Kenneth Wolfe

Mohammad Nasir Vakil

Christopher M Eagan

Marius Ungureanu

Doug Wyatt

Gur Kimchi

Timothy Mark Moore

David A Nichols

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

John David Bruner

Srikanth Shoroff

Namendra Kumar

Jeffrey B Kay

Pavel Curtis

Shaun David Cox

Anish Desai

Marcelo Daniel Truffat

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Reid Joseph Kuhn

John D Skovron

Orit Levin

Scott A Plette

Sundaram Anantharaman

Ray Froelich

Vijay Manian

Hao Yan

Tript Singh Lamba

Ling-Cheung Aaron Lo

Eugen Pajor

Shahzaib Younis

Ramkumar Natarajan

Andrew Peter Schoorl

Lingzhi Cao

Charles A Vermette

Bayo Olatunji

Srivatsa Srinivasan

Shaun D Cox

Vijay Kishen Parthasarathy

A multi-media online conversation in which automatic actions associated with executable components, such as recording and broadcasting, are performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conversation. The action appears as a visualization in a portion of the user interface that includes both individuals that may be joined into a conference as well as one or more executable components. The action associated within an executable component may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner with how individuals are added into an online conversation, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.

Joining executable component to online conference

Online conferencing involving video and audio in which automatic actions such as recording and broadcasting is performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conference area of a user interface. The action appears as a visualization in the contacts portion of the user interface, some of which contacts may represent individuals that may be joined into a conference. Recording or broadcasting the action may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner as how individuals are added into an online conference, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.

Techniques for a mixed audio conference are described. An apparatus may comprise an audio video multipoint control unit to mix call information from multiple call connections established over a packet-switched network for a conference call. The apparatus may comprise a telephony gateway communicatively coupled to the audio video multipoint control unit. The telephony gateway may establish a bridge connection with a conference bridge servicing a call connection over a circuit-switched network, the telephony gateway to translate call information from the call connection for use by the audio video multipoint control unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for a mixed audio conference

Architecture for providing a superuser privilege in a conferencing environment. A pre-configured entity such as a bot program receives special conferencing privileges. A request can be identified as originating from a trusted service and an associated predetermined set of privileges passed to the service. The trusted service can impersonate a user, and join a conference using its own identity or using the identity of a user. Conference control rules can be enforced on the trusted user (e.g., no other users can eject or mute this entity). Moreover, the trusted service can (optionally) hide itself from the conference roster to remain invisible to all participants.

Enabling trusted conferencing services

A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.

Centralized routing in hybrid networks

Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a console application. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a console application, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event. The console application may inherit the individual's permissions during the conference event.

Participant authentication and authorization for joining a private conference event

An existing primary data copy can be maintained on an existing primary front end server node. One or more existing secondary data copies can be maintained on one or more existing secondary front end server nodes to minor the existing primary data copy (such as by making synchronous changes to the secondary data copies). One or more existing backup data copies can be maintained on an existing backend server node to mirror the existing primary data copy (such as by making asynchronous changes to the one or more backup data copies). The existing backend server node can be accessible by one or more of the front end nodes. In response to detecting a failure of the existing primary data copy, one of the one or more secondary data copies can be designated as a new primary data copy in place of the existing primary data copy.

Front end and backend replicated storage

Call policy enforcement and routing is based on user location. A plurality of endpoints is provided for receiving and making calls. Each of the plurality of endpoints are assigned a default policy for controlling call authorization and providing call routing rules. A mapping of policies for a plurality of locations is stored. A location of a client associated with one of the plurality of endpoints is identified. A location-based policy is obtained from the stored mapping of policies of the plurality of locations based on the identified location of the client. The obtained location-based policy is applied instead of the default policy assigned to the client associated with one of the plurality of endpoints.

System, method and device for call policy enforcement and routing based on user location

Protocol architecture for wiring media streams and specifying mixing behavior in a multipoint control unit. The protocol provides the capability to expose the core mixing algorithms to modification for mixing media without dealing with the functionality of the mixer itself (e.g., ports and IP specifics). The protocol facilitates the wiring of input media streams to output media streams by changing the mixing behavior via changes to the mixing algorithms using the protocol. The protocol operates based on a schema that includes controls related to route, wire, and filter for the mixer input and mixer output.

Media mix wiring protocol for media control

Scaling and highly available clustering for large scale real-time applications is provided. A ring may be formed which includes multiple nodes for providing a set of services in a system. When a network partition is detected which affects communications between each of the nodes in the ring, the formation of additional rings is prevented by shutting down nodes which include a minority of voting nodes in the ring while maintaining the availability of the nodes which include a majority of the voting nodes to continue providing the set of services in the system.

Scalable and highly available clustering for large scale real-time applications

User defined routing rules are managed within a primary/backup architecture through continuous replication between home servers and their corresponding presence servers in an automatic manner. User set-up rules are stored and published by a designated presence server to home servers on which the user can register including the user's home registrar and any backup registrars. Changes to the rules may be disseminated and synchronized through comparison of versions and exchange of batches between the presence server and registrars.

Continuous replication for session initiation protocol based communication systems

Architecture for a session lock and lobby feature in a distributed conferencing framework for a conferencing session. Under a lock scenario, once a user enters the session, the session can be locked to prevent other individuals from entering, even if the individuals were invited to the session. Locking can be accomplished manually by a session participant and/or automatically based on criteria. The lobby feature allows a session participant to be aware of users in the lobby and pending access to the session by providing notification and/or identification of the user attempting to gain access. The session leader can selectively allow access to the session. The architecture facilitates lock and lobby features in multiple identical, leaderless, conference servers which together form a distributed conferencing system. The lock and lobby features can employ media session protocols such as session initiation protocol (SIP) and centralized conference control protocol (C3P).

Emulation of room lock and lobby feature in distributed conferencing system

Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event and who are physically present within a conference event environment, such as a meeting room, can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a conference event environment system. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a conference event environment system, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event via the conference event environment system to participate in the conference event. The conference event environment system may inherit the individual's permissions, such as in regards to whether or not the individual has been permitted to present content during the conference event. A conference event roster may be used to indicate that the individual has joined the conference via the conference event environment system.

Participant authentication and authorization for joining a private conference event via a conference event environment system

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