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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2009
Suraj Gaurav, Issaquah, WA (US);
Arun Prasad Jayandra, Redmond, WA (US);
Suraj Gaurav, Issaquah, WA (US);
Arun Prasad Jayandra, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Managing a web based conference. The web based conference includes one or more presenters connected through a network to one or more conference attendees. The presenters control data sent to the attendees. User input is received at a presenter computing system from a presenter indicating that a message should be sent to a number of computing systems being used by attendees. In response to receiving the user input at the presenter computing system, a message is sent to the of computing systems. One or more acknowledgment messages are received from at least a portion of the plurality of computing systems. Based on the one or more acknowledgement messages, a metric is generated for the number of recipients that received the message. The metric is displayed to the presenter.