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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Ross Garrett Cutler, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Peter Sinclair, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Adam Kauffman, Seattle, WA (US);
Anton Krantz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 65/1093 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing ad-hoc online meetings. A service client, when executed by a computing system, directs the computing system to at least detect an in-room discovery signal, identify a room from the in-room discovery signal, identify a session based on the room associated with the in-room discovery signal, and join the session.