Cisco Technology, Inc.

William Sterling Alexander

Vikas Vashisht

Jerome Henry

Robert E Barton

Maik Guenter Seewald

Wayne Moorefield, Jr

Shuli Jin

Joshua Austin Knestaut

Marcin Michal Limanski

John Paul Carlson

A method comprises: at a control entity configured to communicate with a network: linking a user identifier of a user having an account for call-related information to a hardware identifier of a device to be sent to the user, to produce linked identifiers; loading on the device a limited use token associated with the user that enables only basic call functions on the device, and prevents the device from accessing the account; determining whether the user possesses the device based on the linked identifiers and proximity pairing of the device with a pairing device; and based on determining, either provisioning the device with a full access token that enables full calling functions on the device and grants full access to the account by the device, or not provisioning the device with the full access token to prevent access to the account.

Preventing data and hardware loss in pre-provisioned devices

In one embodiment, a telephony device establishes a pairing connection with a user device. The telephony device disables, based on the pairing connection with the user device, a default screen locking policy of the telephony device. The telephony device polls a screen lock status of the user device to determine whether the user device is locked. The telephony device locks the telephony device when the screen lock status of the user device indicates that the user device is locked.

Shared lock screen across paired devices

Methods are provided in which a user device connects a participant to a collaboration session in which the participant communicates with at least one other participant using audio and/or video, which is distributed in a media stream to the at least one other participant via a respective user device. In these methods, the user device detects at least one of an object within a space that is included in the video and an audio signal and selectively filters the media stream to exclude the object or a portion of the audio signal based on at least one of participant list information, learned background information, or learned voices of participants of the collaboration session.

Selective privacy filtering for online conferences

In one example, a server obtains an indication that a first mobile device is in a predetermined proximity to a non-mobile device. In response, the server permits the first mobile device to pair with the non-mobile device. The server generates whitelisted information associated with the first mobile device by adding information associated with the first mobile device to a whitelist that controls mobile device pairing for the non-mobile device. The server also obtains an indication that a given mobile device has obtained one or more keep-alive messages from the non-mobile device. Based on the whitelisted information, the server determines whether to permit the given mobile device to pair or remain paired with the non-mobile device. In response to determining to permit the given mobile device to pair or remain paired with the non-mobile device, the server permits the given mobile device to pair or remain paired with the non-mobile device.

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Durham, NC, United States of America

William Sterling Alexander