Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Tobias Christensen

Matthew William Fardig

Axel Ramirez Flores

Russell Speight VanBlon

Philip Lee Childs

Joshua Smith

Shawn Sharp

Nathanial Albertson

Travis Lee Ennis

Dane Hixson

Sathish Kumar Ganesan

Russell T Covington

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

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for presenting links during an online presentation. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive content that is presented as part of an online presentation, process the received content to identify at least one uniform resource locator ('URL') in the received content, and present an interactive graphical element representing the at least one URL on a display device. The interactive graphical element includes a link to an online location associated with the URL such that the online location is accessible in response to interacting with the interactive graphical element.

Presenting links during an online presentation

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.

Graphical user interfaces for grouping video conference participants

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, context data associated with one or more participants engaged in an online conference, wherein each of the one or more participants is initially muted; identifying, using a processor, an instance in the online conference where participation is invited from a subset of the one or more participants; determining, based on the context data, the subset of the one or more participants; and deactivating, based on the determining, a mute control for the subset of the one or more participants. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Mute control deactivation in online conference

One embodiment provides a method, including: supporting, using a meeting application of an information handling device, a mixed meeting, wherein the mixed meeting comprises participants originating from at least two connection mediums; attempting, using a processor, to determine the identities of each of the participants in the mixed meeting; and providing an indication of each of the determined identities to at least one of the participants. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Participant identification in mixed meeting

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a portion of an audio stream associated with a conversation; transcribing, subsequent to the receiving, the portion; determining, by analyzing the transcribed portion, a sentiment associated with the transcribed portion; and performing, responsive to the determining, a function based on the determined sentiment. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Conversation sentiment identifier

One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, with reference to a predetermined ruleset for an online meeting, a list of eligible required participants; identifying, using at least one identity-determining technique, identities for present participants in the online meeting; determining, with reference to the predetermined ruleset and upon comparison of the list of the eligible required participants to the identified identities of the present participants, whether a minimum threshold number of the eligible required participants are present in the online meeting; and performing an action based upon the determination. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Required meeting participant identification

In one aspect, an apparatus may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display. The GUI may include a first graphical object indicating data related to a first topic that is to be discussed by first and second participants of a first video conference, and the GUI may include a second graphical object indicating data related to a second topic that is to be discussed by third and fourth participants in a second video conference. The first and second video conferences may be transpiring concurrently. Additionally, the GUI may include a first selector that is selectable to allow a fifth participant to converse audibly in the first video conference, and a second selector that is selectable to allow the fifth participant to converse audibly in the second video conference.

Graphical user interfaces for monitoring video conferences

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for detecting and correcting audio echo. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect audio that is received through an audio channel of a first user during a conference call being echoed through an audio channel of a second user in the conference call. The code is executable by the processor to identify the second user associated with the audio channel that is echoing the audio of the first user. The code is executable by the processor to perform a corrective action associated with the second user to prevent audio that is received from the first user from being echoed through the audio channel of the second user.

Detecting and correcting audio echo

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the conference participant, wherein the context data identifies a likely location of the conference participant; identifying, at the likely location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and contacting the conference participant via the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

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Tobias Christensen