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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Amit Kumar Dutta, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anand Srinivasan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher M. Eagan, Seattle, WA (US);
Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Dhigha Sekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Marius Ungureanu, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Online conferencing involving video and audio in which automatic actions such as recording and broadcasting is performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conference area of a user interface. The action appears as a visualization in the contacts portion of the user interface, some of which contacts may represent individuals that may be joined into a conference. Recording or broadcasting the action may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner as how individuals are added into an online conference, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.