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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Alan D. Gatzke, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
William Chen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kian Shahla, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes requesting from a calendaring system calendaring information for a participant in an online collaboration session, wherein the calendaring information includes free/busy information for the participant; receiving the requested calendaring information; verifying based on processing of the received calendaring information that the participant has a hard stop relative to an end of the online collaboration session, wherein the hard stop is a point in time at which the participant can no longer participate in the online collaboration session; and presenting on a display of user equipment associated with the online collaboration system a hard stop indicator for the participant a first amount of time prior to the hard stop, wherein the hard stop indicator is displayed proximate a representation of the participant.