Cisco Technology, Inc.

Mingfeng Yang

Yasi Xi

Grant Pan

Jason Ding

Ram Mohan Ravindranath

Faisal Siyavudeen

Bo Huang

Shun Wang

Rajarshee Dhar

Deepesh Arora

Jianbin Fang

Barry Jia

David You

Jimmy Li

DeLei Xie

Rongrong Pan

A method comprises: at a computer device configured with user applications grouped in multiple virtual desktops hosted on and displayed by the computer device: establishing an online meeting with remote computer devices over a network; responsive to user input, selecting one of the multiple virtual desktops to be a shared virtual desktop, such that all other ones of the multiple virtual desktops become unshared virtual desktops; sharing, with the remote computer devices, the shared virtual desktop, including first user applications of the user applications that are grouped in the shared virtual desktop; and not sharing, with the remote computer devices, any of the unshared virtual desktops and second user applications of the user applications that are grouped in the unshared virtual desktops.

Enabling screen-share in online meeting platform based on virtual desktop

Systems and methods are disclosed for securing a meeting in a physical conference room with multiple meetings scheduled therein. A list of scheduled meetings for the physical conference room is received from a videoconference server that is configured to host a multi-endpoint conference meeting between a local endpoint associated with the physical conference room and at least one remote endpoint. A first meeting within the list of scheduled meetings is designated as a locked meeting. The list of scheduled meetings that do not have the locked designation associated with the physical conference room for display are displayed, whereas for the first meeting, display of meeting information is suppressed. The presence of a device associated with an entity invited to the first meeting is detected, and at least one resource in the physical conference room is unlocked for use in the first meeting when a received meeting identifier is verified.

Protecting scheduled meeting in physical room

A method for following specific participants from among participants of a group conversation over a communications network is implemented on a computing device and includes: presenting participant posts from the participants of a group conversation in an application window, detecting at least one request to follow at least one of the specific participants as a followed participant, and presenting the participant posts associated with at least one followed participant in an application sub-window.

Conversation sub-window

Controlling aggregation of shared content from multiple presenters during an online conference session includes, at a server having network connectivity, at a server having network connectivity, identifying a master presenter at an endpoint among a plurality of endpoints participating in an online conference session in which at least one of the plurality of endpoints is sharing content with other participants among the plurality of participants at their respective endpoints. One or more assistant presenters are determined among the plurality of participants at their respective endpoints. A master user interface is generated to serve as the user interface on the endpoint of the master presenter and a command is received, via the master user interface, to designate a layout. The layout aggregates shared content from the endpoints of one or more of the assistant presenters to make the layout viewable at the plurality of endpoints.

Controlling aggregation of shared content from multiple endpoints during an online conference session

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for enabling participant following in an electronic conference. An example method can involve generating a graphical interface for an electronic conference including a group of participants, the graphical interface displaying an active participant in a first display region and a panel of respective graphical participant representations in a second display region. The method can further involve receiving, via the graphical interface, an input requesting to move at least one of the respective graphical participant representations out of the panel in the second display region to a location in the first display region of the graphical interface, and based on the input, updating the graphical interface to display the at least one of the respective graphical participant representations in the first display region.

Technologies for following participants in a video conference

In one embodiment a method for presenting conversational history is implemented on a computing device and includes: deriving a collaboration activity index as a function of at least a frequency of a conversation's communications over a period of time, mapping the collaboration activity index to a conversation timeline according to a timeline for the period of time; and displaying the conversation timeline on a display screen.

Conversation timeline mapping

In one embodiment, a conferencing device detects a potential echo effect between two or more of a plurality of participant devices in an online conference the two or more participant devices being co-located. The conferencing device presents an echo warning to a user interface of a particular one of the co-located participant devices, in response to detecting the potential echo effect. The conferencing device groups the co-located participant devices into a group. The conferencing device provides audio data from a selected one of the co-located participant devices in the group for presentation by the plurality of participant devices as part of the online conference.

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