Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Stuti Jain

Avronil Bhattacharjee

Pulin Thakkar

Alex Jacob Simmons

David John Rasmussen

Thomas Charles Underhill

Enrique De La Garza

Kapil Sharma

Cynthia Dahl Wessling

Alexei Pineda

Shruti Kasetty

Noor-E-Gagan Singh

Charles Duze

Diana Finster

Quinn Hawkins

Karin Zilberstein

Hong Lin

Sirirat Reinikka

Adrian Chiu

Syed Mustafa Bilal

Kitty Chou

Jeffrey Bell

Noor E-Gagan Singh

Improved operation of a content presentation device is achieved by displaying, to a user, user-desired primary content on the physical display device. Content pod metadata can be received specifying a predefined duration of a content pod for displaying auxiliary content, different from primary content, within a break from the primary content for the predetermined duration. The content pod metadata also specifies a plurality of subdivision time slots of the content pod, each time slot for different auxiliary content. The auxiliary content can be displayed on the physical display device within a time slot of the content pod. User input can be received while displaying the auxiliary content on the physical display device, where the user input indicates user interest in the auxiliary content. The auxiliary content can then be adjusted based on the user interest in the auxiliary content.

Increased user efficiency and interaction performance through dynamic adjustment of auxiliary content duration

Notes may be shared in an online meeting with online meeting attendees through a software application associated with organizing an online meeting, for example, online meeting software, calendaring software, note-taking software, or the like. Notes may be created and/or shared before, during, and/or after the online meeting by meeting attendees. Meeting attendees may be notified when notes are shared for the online meeting. Notes may be shared with items of the software application associated with organizing the online meeting. For example, notes may be shared in online meeting software with the online meeting. Notes may be shared among items of different software applications, for example, notes shared in the online meeting software may be automatically shared with a calendar item in a calendaring software application.

Sharing notes in online meetings

Techniques to automatically manage overlapping objects are described. An apparatus may include a context module operative to receive context information for a multimedia event, and determine various context parameters and control parameters for the multimedia event. The apparatus may further comprise a blending module communicatively coupled to the context module, the blending module operative to receive multiple media content streams for multiple media content views for the multimedia event, and blend the media content streams for the multiple media content views based on one or more control parameters to form a blended media content stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to automatically manage overlapping objects

Techniques to manage media content for a multimedia conference event are described. An apparatus may comprise a media content manager component operative to generate a visual composition of decoded media streams for a multimedia conference event. If it is determined that the total number of decoded media streams is greater than the total number of available display frames in a visual composition then an active group of decoded media streams may be selected from among the total number of decoded media streams for mapping to the available display frames based on speech activity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to manage media content for a multimedia conference event

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Stuti Jain