International Business Machines Corporation

University College Dublin

Nationaluniversity of Ireland, Maynooth

Waterford Institute of Technology

National University of Ireland

National University of Ireleand

James Patrick Galvin, Jr

Jonathan D Dunne

Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan

Paul Basil French

Hitham Ahmed Assem Aly Salama

Amy D Travis

David W Malone

Yi Han

Patrick W McDonagh

Liam S Harpur

Andrew Lewis Schirmer

Haytham Assem

Sara Beth Weber

Mohamed Adel Mahmoud

Al Chakra

Hitham A A A Salama

Himanshu Dadheech

Erik John Burckart

Michael R O'Brien

Niklas Heidloff

Mark E Wallace

Gregory Robert Klouda

Daniel B Kehn

Shadi Ghaith

Shailendra Maheshwari

Ruthie D Lyle

Michael Muller

Thomas Schaeck

William M Quinn

Fonda J Daniels

Brian L Pulito

Sandra Louise Kogan

David Mark Wendt

Martin J Presler-Marshall

Gil Perzy

Ofira Tal-Aviv

Kevin Solie

Jeremy Brand Sussman

Uri Segev

Galina Rubinshtein

David S Marshak

Christopher D Price

Avshalom Houri

Brian G Cline

Duncan L Mewherter

Ronald E Pontrich, Jr

Amir Perlman

Gili Revel

Yakov Kupherstein

John Fitzpatrick

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for determining quality of experience for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a plurality of intrusive quality of experience scores associated with a plurality of intrusive audio transmission samples. The method may also include determining a plurality of non-intrusive quality of experience scores associated with a plurality of non-intrusive audio transmission samples. The method may further include deriving a quality of experience coefficient based upon a relationship between the plurality of intrusive quality of experience scores and the plurality of non-intrusive quality of experience scores.

Determining quality of experience for communication sessions

A system for dynamically adjusting content for an interaction impairment can include a data provider, an end-user electronic device, a user identification module, and a data adjustment module. The data provider can be capable of providing access to electronic data. One or more characteristics of the electronic data can be incompatible with an impairment of an impaired user. The end-user electronic device can be configured to allow the impaired user to interact with electronic data. The user identification module can be configured to identify an identity of the impaired user and/or the impairment of the impaired user. The data adjustment module can be configured to automatically adjust incompatible characteristics of the electronic data prior to presentation by the end-user electronic device. This adjustment can increase the ability of the impaired user to utilize the electronic data with the end-user electronic device.

Impairment-adaptive electronic data interaction system

Active speaker detection can include receiving speaker detection signals from a plurality of devices participating in an electronic meeting. Each speaker detection signal specifies a score indicating whether an active speaker is detected by a respective device of the plurality of devices that generates the speaker detection signal. Active speaker detection further can include determining, using a processor, a device of the plurality of devices that detects an active speaker based upon the speaker detection signals, wherein, in response to the determining, the method further comprises: providing video received from the determined device to the plurality of devices during the electronic meeting.

Active speaker detection in electronic meetings for providing video from one device to plurality of other devices

A role of sharing broker can be activated on a first mobile device, the role of sharing broker brokering sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices. Data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network can be monitored. Responsive to the data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network exceeding a threshold value, an amount of data usage on at least the first network being shared by the first mobile device among the plurality of other mobile devices can be adjusted.

Peer-to-peer sharing of network resources

A primary video and a second instance of a reference video can be simultaneously transmitted to a system through at least a first node of a communication network, the second instance of the reference video configured to be compared to a first instance of the reference video stored by the system to generate at least one quality of experience (QoE) value that infers a perceptual quality of the primary video as received by the system. The QoE value can be received from the system. A determination can be made as to whether the QoE value is less than a threshold value. Responsive to determining that the QoE value is less than the threshold value, the perceptual quality of the primary video can be improved by allocating greater bandwidth for transmission of the primary video.

Use of simultaneously received videos by a system to generate a quality of experience value

A plurality of annotations can be received for a presentation presented in a web conference. A respective relevance parameter can be assigned to each of the annotations. Each relevance parameter can indicate a relevance of a respective annotation to a portion of the presentation to which the annotation pertains. For each of the annotations, a decay model based on the respective relevance parameter can be generated. The decay model can indicate different durations of time the annotation is to be visible to different participants participating in the web conference based on respective expertise levels of the participants. Each respective annotation can be presented with the presentation in accordance with the decay model generated for the respective annotation.

Persisting annotations applied to an electronic hosted whiteboard

A method of implementing calls includes identifying a call scheduled for a time in the future from an electronic calendar associated with a user and prior to the call, ordering a plurality of codecs used by an Internet Protocol (IP) phone of the user for the scheduled call. The method further includes, during the call and using a processor, calculating a mean opinion score for the call and storing the mean opinion score as part of call data for the call within a data storage device comprising historical call data.

Codec selection and usage for improved VoIP call quality

An indicator can be received from a client device. The indicator can indicate an agreement by a user of the client device to share device resources of the client device with an entity distinct from the client device and distinct from the user of the client device. Responsive to receiving from the mobile device the indicator, and responsive to receiving a message from a sharing agent of the mobile device indicating that that no user inputs are received by the mobile device over a particular duration of time and that video content is not being streamed to the mobile device, a client access agent can access the shared resources, data to be processed by the shared device resources can be communicated to the mobile device, and a level of a quality of service provided by a communication network to the mobile device can be increased.

Increased network resources in exchange for sharing of device resources

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing quality of experience for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a participant focus metric for each of a plurality of participants of a communication session. The method may also include identifying one of the plurality of participants of the communication session as having sufficient capacity to support the communication session based upon, at least in part, the participant focus metric for each of the plurality of participants of the communication session. The method may also include selecting the one of the plurality of participants having a sufficient capacity to support the communication session as a selected focus for the communication session. The method may further include adaptively implementing a centralized communication session architecture utilizing the selected focus.

Quality of experience for communication sessions

A method includes receiving, by a processor, metrics relating to a plurality of program channels. The plurality of program channels are distributed via at least one multicast stream. The method also includes modifying, by the processor, the at least one multicast stream. The modifying is based at least on the received metrics, and the modifying changes which programs are distributed via the at least one multicast stream. The method also includes transmitting at least one program channel via the modified at least one multicast stream.

Adaptive packaging and distribution of channels

A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, content in a document, wherein the content includes a language expression. A context of the language expression is determined from a defined range of the content in the document. An action item associated with the language expression is generated based upon, at least in part, the context of the language expression.

Context based document analysis

Audio waveform data can be received from a plurality of client devices. The audio waveform data for each client device can be generated by sampling at least one portion of an audio stream received by the respective client device. The audio waveform data received from the plurality of client devices can be compared. Based on the comparison, which of the plurality of client devices are located in a same location can be determined. Further, based on the comparison, which of the plurality of client devices located in the same location are to mute their respective input audio transducers can be determined, and an indicator indicating to the client devices to mute their respective input audio transducers can be communicated to the client devices that are determined to mute their respective input audio transducers.

Auto-mute redundant devices in a conference room

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