Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeremy B Smith

Pavel Curtis

Anne M Archambault

Brian Meek

Douglas K Wyatt

Avronil Bhattacharjee

Bo Qin

Zheng Ni

Natasha Desai

Mingju Zhang

Ananta Gudipaty

Sumeet Bawa

Aliasgar Haveliwala

Jay L Vernon

Chadlee R Slater

Robert D George

Kyle Hagel

Zhi-Wei Lin

A method, system, and architecture for providing a virtual conference center that effectively increases the number of accounts supported by a conference center. The virtual conference center architecture provides a virtual conference center that interfaces with multiple conference centers that each support a certain number of accounts. The virtual conference center provides an interface through which users can access their accounts on the conference centers as if their accounts were created on a single conference center. The users access their accounts and join conferences through the virtual conference center.

Virtual conference center architecture

A conferencing system provides the scheduling of virtual meetings with meeting lobbies so that a meeting presenter can conduct a virtual meeting without the need to send out invitations to attendees. A person that wants to conduct a virtual meeting can schedule with the conferencing system a meeting with a meeting lobby. The meeting lobby has an address, but there is no associated privileged information, such as a meeting password. Would-be meeting attendees use the meeting lobby address to enter the meeting lobby as visitors in the lobby, and request to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby. A meeting presenter can then either grant authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting, or deny authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting. If a visitor in the meeting lobby is denied authorization to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby, the conferencing system removes the visitor from the meeting lobby.

Meeting lobby for web conferencing

The present interactive recording and playback technique provides the ability to archive the content, the discussions and the metadata of a meeting or similar event; then aggregate, search and annotate across this data; and finally edit, combine, or split various recordings to create new presentations. This interactive recording and playback technique provides rich productivity and innovation that is unavailable today.

Interactive recording and playback for network conferencing

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Jeremy B Smith