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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jingyao Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Justin R. Etzine, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chieh Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Russel S. Greer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel B. Pollack, San Jose, CA (US);
Hyeonkuk Jeong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Wan-Ya Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, participant devices in a conferencing session may be provided with the ability to expel one or more other participant devices from the conferencing session, even when the participant device(s) are not hosts or cohosts of the conferencing session. A participant device may be expellable by another participant device based on a connection mechanism by which the participant device is connected to the conferencing session, and/or based on an amount of time since the participant device joined the conferencing session.