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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:
May. 16, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2020
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

John Aceron, Chantilly, VA (US);

Rohit Shirish Saraf, Nashua, NH (US);

Bhumip Khasnabish, Lexington, MA (US);

Serhad Doken, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, streaming and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel conference framework that automatically determines and prioritizes speaker allocation within a conference in order to remedy and/or avoid conflicts between speakers so that a clear and decisive dialog can occur. The disclosed conference framework balances a determined weighting factor and queue management ranking of the conference to provide a prioritized speaker queue that enables all participants to speak without conflict or interruption. The disclosed systems and methods enable a prioritized, conflict-resolution based conferencing environment where orderly conferencing can occur while maintaining each participants rights to participate accordingly.


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