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Leslie Rae Ferguson

Nicole Danielle Steinbok

Nathan James Fish

Xiping Zuo

Kuldeep Karnawat

Jeffrey Scott Berg

Joo Young Lee

Derek Matthias Hans

Nina Shih

A state client is configured to allow a user to specify a meeting-specific state, such as that the user is running late for a meeting, checked in to the meeting, or unable to attend the meeting. A state service stores data identifying the user's meeting-specific state. The state service also responds to requests for the state of the user. In one implementation, when such a request is received, the state service determines whether the user is an invitee to the same meeting as the user requesting the state. If not, the state service returns a general-purpose state indicator for the user. If both users are invitees to the same meeting, the state service returns the meeting-specific state indicator, which may then be displayed by a state client.

Meeting-specific state indicators

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Leslie Rae Ferguson