Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Lenovo (united States) Inc.

Matthew William Fardig

Joshua Smith

Tobias Christensen

Lindsay Nelson

Travis Lee Ennis

Inna Zolin

Dane Hixson

Sathish Kumar Ganesan

Shawn Sharp

Riley G Branch

Carl H Seaver

Richard Downey

Philip Lee Childs

Axel Ramirez Flores

Richard W German

Faisal Mohamed

Allen Wayne Richey

Roger Alan Thomas

Nathanial Albertson

Anthony Mourey

Russell Speight VanBlon

Mark Patrick Delaney

Anthony Edward Martinez

Timothy Mark Robbins

Russell T Covington

Sarah Kleinman

Peter Koeppen

Brandon Moyes Maxfield

Allen Richey

Leana Neparidze

Gregory Lee Walls

Timothy Robbins

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for monitoring the behavior of attendees of a video conference are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to monitor behavior exhibited by each attendee of a video conference, determine, in real-time, that the behavior exhibited by one or more source attendees include one or more inappropriate behaviors that are directed to a target attendee, and transmit a notification to a moderator in response to determining that the behavior exhibited by the source attendee(s) include the inappropriate behavior(s) directed to the target attendee. In some apparatus, the notification identifies each source attendee, the target attendee, and each inappropriate behavior exhibited by each source attendee. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.

Apparatus, methods, and program products for monitoring the behavior of attendees of a video conference

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: obtaining, at a communication mapping system, a recorded communication occurring between at least two participants; tracking, using the communication mapping system, when a participant of the at least two participants is communicating; identifying, using the communication mapping system and while the participant is communicating, at least one topic of the recorded communication, wherein the identifying comprises tracking a time within the communication corresponding to the at least one topic; and producing, from the tracking and the at least one topic, a map for the recorded communication, wherein the map identifies topics of the recorded communication, times within the recorded communication corresponding to the topics, and times within the recorded communication corresponding to a participant communicating. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Generation of a map for recorded communications

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: attending, over a communication medium, a virtual meeting comprising a presenter and at least one participant, each accessing the virtual meeting by use of an information handling device comprising a display; determining, based upon the information handling device of the at least one participant, a size of a share window on the display of the presenter's information handling device; and sharing, based upon the determined size of the share window, information present within the share window on the display of the presenter's information handling device to the display of the at least one participant's information handling device. Other aspects are claimed and described.

Dynamic sizing of a share window

In one aspect, a first device includes a processor and storage. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor to present video at the first device, where the video is generated at a second device. The instructions are also executable to determine identifying information for a first graphical object selected at the second device, where the first graphical object is related to the video. Based on the identifying information, the instructions are executable to execute computer vision to identify a second graphical object that matches the first graphical object to at least a threshold level of confidence. The second graphical object is presented on a display of the first device. Based on identification of the second graphical object, the instructions are executable to depict, on the display via the second graphical object, the selection at the second device of the first graphical object.

Computer vision to depict user input to one device at another device

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, during a meeting comprising at least one participant remote to a user identified as a presenter and utilizing a screenshare alternative system, visual data shared from an information handling device of the presenter to an information handling device of the at least one participant; identifying, utilizing the screenshare alternative system, an issue displaying the visual data on the information handling device of the at least one participant; and providing, utilizing the screenshare alternative system, an alternative provision of the visual data to the at least one participant. Other aspects are claimed and described.

Alternative screenshare provision

In one aspect, an apparatus may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive a transcription of audio from a first client device. The audio may be detected at the first client device and may be streamed from the first client device as part of a video conference. The instructions may also be executable to determine that a second client device is not presenting a first part of the audio. Based on the determination, the instructions may be executable to send a first part of the transcription to the second client device and/or to present the first part the transcription at the second client device.

Presentation of part of transcript based on detection of device not presenting corresponding audio

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that can replicate a digital environment are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to generate a digital record of a digital environment occurring at an original time in which the digital record includes a set of happenings that occurred in the digital environment at the original time. The code is further executable by the processor to store the digital record for replication of the digital environment. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.

Replicating a digital environment

One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one sensor associated with an information handling device, sensor data; identifying, at the information handling device, a request to share the sensor data from the information handling device with another entity; determining, using a processor, whether context data associated with the information handling device satisfies one or more predetermined criteria outlined in a data sharing permissions list; and providing, responsive to determining that the context data does satisfy the one or more predetermined criteria, a notification to a user of the information handling device of the determination. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Context based data sharing

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, during a meeting comprising at least one participant remote to a user identified as a presenter, communication data and visual data provided by the user to the at least one participant; determining, utilizing a meeting discrepancy system, that content of the visual data does not match content of the communication data; and providing, to the user and utilizing a meeting discrepancy system, a notification indicating the content of the visual data does not match the content of the communication data. Other aspects are claimed and described.

Identification of screen discrepancy during meeting

For detecting and resolving bad audio during conferencing, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor detects bad audio for a conference call, the conference call involving a plurality of participants. The processor switches a first input stream to an analysis mode, where the bad audio corresponds to a first one of a plurality of input streams, the first input stream associated with a first participant. The processor sends a conference output channel to the first participant while in the analysis mode and concurrently analyzes the first input stream using a plurality of audio tools while in the analysis mode. The processor returns the first input stream to a conferencing mode in response to resolving the bad audio.

Resolving bad audio during conference call

Methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for determining location of audio transmission problems between components connected across a network. A method includes receiving audio and a first transcription of the audio from a source device, generating a second transcription of the received audio. The method also includes providing an indication of an audio problem responsive to the first transcription not matching the second transcription and sending the audio and the second transcription to an audio mixing device, a recording device, or a participant device responsive to the first transcription matching the second transcription.

Methods, systems, and program products for identifying location of problems of delivered audio

A video conferencing system includes data relating to the focus of attention of an attendee in a virtual conference. The system determines the focus of attention of attendee as a function of the data and modifies an audio output and/or a video output of the system as a function of the focus of attention of the attendee.

Organic conversations in a virtual group setting

A phone tree traversal system includes an input device configured to receive a user call request, a memory, and one or more processors. The one or more processors analyze the user call request to identify an entity to call and an objective of the call, and obtain a map of a phone tree utilized by an automated call receiving system of the entity. The phone tree includes at least one node with multiple path segments that branch from the node, and each node includes a respective prompt. The one or more processors determine a route along the map to an endpoint of the phone tree associated with the objective. During the call, the one or more processors navigate the phone tree to reach the endpoint by submitting information in response to the respective prompt at each node along the route that is determined.

Phone tree traversal system and method

A method that includes identifying a processing error, obtaining user input information for a determined period prior to identifying the processing error, determining steps undertaken during the determined period prior to identifying the processing error based on the input information, and obtaining context awareness information related to the one or more processors. The method also includes obtaining network user input information and network context awareness information related to the processing error from other electronic devices within a network, determining a reduced amount of steps from the steps undertaken during the determined period to identify the processing error to form an error reproduction plan by analyzing the network user input information and the network context awareness information in comparison to the user input information and context awareness information, and communicating the error reproduction plan to a user or third party.

Method and device for reproducing an error condition

In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable to identify first, second, third, and fourth participants that are to engage in video conferencing. The instructions may also be executable to access data related to the participants. The instructions may then be executable to, based on the data, group the first and second participants together for a first video conference and group the third and fourth participants together for a second video conference. Based on the grouping, the instructions may then be executable to provide a graphical user interface including video feeds of the participants according to the groupings and allowing a fifth participant to enter the different groups to converse audibly with the different groups. The groupings may be made based on past participation in other video conferences and/or traits of the respective participants, for example.

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Boonville, IN, United States of America

Matthew William Fardig