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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2016
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

William G. Verthein, Sammamish, WA (US);

Amer Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 12/1827 (2013.01); H04L 12/1877 (2013.01); H04L 65/1046 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/602 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 69/24 (2013.01); H04M 3/51 (2013.01); H04M 3/56 (2013.01); H04M 2203/406 (2013.01); H04M 2203/555 (2013.01);
Abstract

The patterns of usage, participation, and/or item sharing by the participants in a conference call are correlated, recognized, and used to select a data centers. This selection can be done both before and/or during a call. When significant patterns are recognized (e.g., heavy video sharing by one participant at every Friday afternoon meeting) there may be a better (e.g., faster, better quality, more efficient, less use of network resources) data center to host the call than one that is selected based on the geography of the participants alone. Likewise, during a call, other patterns of behavior can be correlated and recognized dynamically such that when these patterns occur, the call is hosted by a different (i.e., better) data center.


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