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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Michael H. Peters, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael H. Peters, Knoxville, TN (US);
Alexander M. Stufflebeam, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Other;
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhanced video conference management. In some implementations, a media stream is received from each of multiple endpoint devices over a communication network. A video conference session among the endpoint devices is managed such that at least one or more of the media streams are transmitted over the communication network for display by the endpoint devices. A plurality of audio and/or video characteristics from the media stream from a particular endpoint device of the multiple endpoint devices are measured. Based on the audio and/or video characteristics, a collaboration factor score is determined for the particular endpoint device for each of a plurality of collaboration factors. The video conference of the endpoint devices by performing a video conference management action selected based on the collaboration factor scores.