Cisco Technology, Inc.

Huahua Yin

Hua Ouyang

Qi Shi

Yunwei Luo

Yi Lu

Changjiang Wang

Weifeng Shi

Mei Cui

Hua Tang

Lijuan Wang

In an embodiment, a method for calculating a noise index value for a digital audio source in a server computer system that is coupled to a plurality of audio sources and configured to operate a teleconference among the plurality of digital audio sources comprises receiving a first digital audio signal from the digital audio source of the one or more digital sources. Using the server computer system, the process identifies two or more types of sounds that are represented in the first digital audio source. The types of sounds identified include at least two of: one or more human voices; a background noise; or an actionable sound that mandates further action. Using a server computer system, calculating the noise index value based upon the types of sounds identified from the first digital audio signal. The noise index value represents a summation of relative magnitudes particular types of sounds that has been identified in the first digital audio signal in relation to other types of sounds that have been identified in the first digital audio signal. The process then visually presents the noise index value to one or more client computers of the one or more digital audio sources in a user interface screen display of an audio conference manager that the one or more client computers execute.

Online meeting computer with improved noise management logic

In one embodiment, a method includes sharing first content from a first computer of a first participant in an online conference. The first content is shared on a second display of a second computer of a second participant in the online conference. During the sharing of the first content, third content from a third computer of a third participant is queued in a queue at the second computer without display on the second display. For a transition from the first participant to the third participant in the online conference, the third content is shared on the second display of the second computer from the queue.

Queued sharing of content in online conferencing

An example method is provided and includes receiving an input associated with sharing data in a virtual meeting involving a first endpoint and a second endpoint associated with a meeting in a network environment. A window associated with an application that is running on the endpoint is scanned to determine a dataset for sharing, via the virtual meeting, with the second endpoint. The method also includes identify a portion of the dataset to restrict based on analyzing the dataset against a metric. The method also includes preventing a window of the at least one window from being transmitted, via the virtual meeting, to the second endpoint based on a determination that the window includes the portion of the dataset to restrict.

System, method, and logic for managing content in a virtual meeting

Presented herein are techniques to enable a meeting participant/attendee at a first endpoint device in an online/web-based meeting/conference to acquire shared content with high resolution. The first endpoint device receives an initial image of content shared by a second endpoint in the online/web-based meeting/conference. At the first endpoint, the initial image of the shared content is displayed. A user selection of a selected region of the initial image is received at the first endpoint, and a second image of the shared content corresponding to the selected region is received at the first endpoint, wherein the second image has a higher resolution than the initial image.

Acquiring regions of remote shared content with high resolution

In one embodiment, a method includes displaying, by a participant processor on a display device and during an online conference, a list of invited participants of the online conference. The list includes a declining one of the invited participants whom declined to participate in at least a part of the online conference. The method also includes indicating, by the participant processor on the display device and for the one of the invited participants whom declined to participate, a message having a reason for declining.

Messages from absent participants in online conferencing

An attendee device in an online conference session views a shared application window in a full screen mode. The attendee device receives data for content being shared by a host device, including at least one application window at a first resolution. The attendee device receives an input to enter a full screen mode for one of the application windows and determines whether displaying that application window at a second resolution for the full screen mode requires the image data to be magnified. When displaying the application window at the second resolution requires magnified image data, the attendee device requests the magnified image data from the meeting server facilitating the conference session. The meeting server provides the magnified image data to the attendee device, and the attendee device displays the application window in full screen mode using the magnified image data.

Viewing full screen applications in a sharing session

A method is provided in one example and includes establishing a connection with each of a first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a first online meeting between the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the first online meeting has a meeting identifier associated therewith. The method further includes receiving first context information associated with the first online meeting from at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a second online meeting between a second set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees without disconnecting at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the second online meeting has the same meeting identifier as the first online meeting associated therewith. The method still further includes maintaining the first context information within the second online meeting.

Renewing an in-process meeting without interruption in a network environment

In one embodiment, a client device determines that a client device display screen is displaying a video image as enlarged, compares received regions of a received video image with regions of the displayed video image, determines that the compared regions of the received video image are different from the regions of the displayed video image, and stores received video frames comprising the received video image in a cache memory. Related systems, apparatus, and methods are also described.

Method and system for remote meetings

Techniques are presented herein to enable a first device participating in a conference session to adapt its displayed content being shared from a second device that has a larger display and can therefore display a larger area of content than the first device is capable of displaying. The first device has a first display and displays a portion of content being displayed on a second display of the second device that is being shared with the first device during an online conference session. The first device detects when a first change has occurred in the content that is outside of the portion displayed on the first display. A graphical element is displayed on the first display, the graphical element indicating that the first change has occurred in the content outside of the portion being displayed on the first device.

Content sharing system for small-screen devices

Techniques are presented herein for improving experiences in online meetings that include a plurality of attendee devices, where an attendee device is designated as a presenter. Shared content is provided from the presenter to at least one other attendee device engaged in the online meeting, and an indicator is automatically provided to at least one attendee device regarding whether a condition associated with the presenter providing the shared content has been satisfied.

Detection of shared content viewed by attendees in online meetings

Presented herein are techniques to improve content sharing in online conference meetings/sessions. A first request is received from a first attendee device participating in an online meeting. The first request includes information indicating/describing a first particular region of shared content being presented by a presenter device during the online meeting, to be magnified at the first attendee device. Magnified image data for the first particular region is generated from uncompressed image data for the shared content based on the information contained in the first request. The magnified image data for the first particular region is sent for display at the first attendee device.

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