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AssigneeAkamai Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAbhijit C. Mehta, Charles E. Gero, Thomas Houman
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An overlay network platform facilitates a multi-party conference. End users participate in the conference using client-based web browser software. According to this disclosure, an enhanced “audio” experience for a user participating in the conference is provided by rendering different participants' audio in the conference at different positions in a three-dimensional (3D) space. In operation, and given a set of audio streams that comprise the conference and that are being received, a three-dimensional (3D) position for each audio stream in a 3D soundscape is computed. In one embodiment, the 3D position for each audio stream is computed by identifying a target area region of space, and then determining the 3D position for each stream in the target area region of space. The relative 3D positions may be determined based on contextual information related to the content of an audio stream, as well as a computed “relevance” of one stream versus another. The streams are then rendered to the listener based on the computed 3D positions.
A method carried out at a client machine, the client machine being one of a set of machines participating in a multi-party conference that is facilitated using an overlay network platform, the client machine associated with a user, comprising:
A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium to render audio of different participants in a multi-party conference at different positions in a three-dimensional (3D) space, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions executed in a hardware processor of a client data processing system to carry out a set of operations, the client data processing system associated with a user, comprising:
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