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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:
Mar. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2007
Applicants:

Matthew Kuhlke, San Francisco, CA (US);

Fadi Ramzi Jabbour, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David C. Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Eric H. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Glenn Tay Inn, San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Kuhlke, San Francisco, CA (US);

Fadi Ramzi Jabbour, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David C. Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Eric H. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Glenn Tay Inn, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprises establishing, by an IP-based meeting server via an IP network, a web-based media conference between an identified meeting presenter having a web-enabled presenter client device and identified meeting participants each having at least one corresponding participating client device; receiving, by the IP-based meeting server, monitoring data for each of the identified meeting participants, the monitoring data including, for each identified meeting participant, a detected interaction by the corresponding identified meeting participant with the corresponding participant client device; generating, by the IP-based meeting server, an aggregate attention metric identifying an aggregate focus of attention by the identified meeting participants, based on the received monitoring data; and outputting, by the IP-based meeting server, the aggregate attention metric for display by the web-enabled presenter client device of the identified meeting presenter.


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