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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Bothell, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Dhigha A. Sekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishnan Ananthanarayanan, Bothell, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Dhigha A. Sekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Architecture for providing a superuser privilege in a conferencing environment. A pre-configured entity such as a bot program receives special conferencing privileges. A request can be identified as originating from a trusted service and an associated predetermined set of privileges passed to the service. The trusted service can impersonate a user, and join a conference using its own identity or using the identity of a user. Conference control rules can be enforced on the trusted user (e.g., no other users can eject or mute this entity). Moreover, the trusted service can (optionally) hide itself from the conference roster to remain invisible to all participants.