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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Boland T. Jones, Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert J. Frohwein, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Michael Guthrie, Atlanta, GA (US);
Peter Stewart, Berkeley Lake, GA (US);
Boland T. Jones, Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert J. Frohwein, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Michael Guthrie, Atlanta, GA (US);
Peter Stewart, Berkeley Lake, GA (US);
American Teleconference Services, Ltd., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing a virtual conference. One embodiment is a method for providing a virtual conference that includes a conferencing system obtaining participant location information associated with a plurality of participant identifiers, the conferencing system establishing an audio conference with participants associated with the plurality of participant identifiers, and executing logic that selects a stored representation and communicates the stored representation to a rendering device that displays, during the audio conference, a graphical view responsive to the stored representation on a display device. A distributed system includes a conferencing system that establishes an audio conference among participants and a licensing application that communicates a representation to a rendering device that displays, during the audio conference, a graphical view responsive to the representation on the display device.