Systems and methods to automatically join conference
AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.
InventorsSrikanth Channapragada, Vikram Makam Gupta, Pooja Srivastava
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described to enable a device of a user to automatically join an ongoing conference, where the device is not currently joined to the conference. A first audio signature is generated based on voices of users already in the conference, and a second audio signature is generated based on an audio signal captured by a microphone of the device associated with the first user when the device associated with the first user was not joined to the conference. The first audio signature and the second audio signature are compared, and in response to determining that first audio signature matches the second audio signature, the device associated with the first user is joined to the conference.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an audio sample associated with on-going conference comprising plurality of users;
- determining that a first device, associated with a first user and not currently joined to the on-going conference, should be joined to the on-going conference by:
- determining that the first user associated with the first device has been invited to join the on-going conference and that the first device is within a threshold distance of a second device associated with at least one user of the plurality of users in the on-going conference;
- receiving an ambient sound sample captured by a microphone of the first device;
- and
- in response to determining that the audio sample matches the ambient sound sample, determining that the first device associated with the first user should be joined to the on-going conference;
- and
- joining the first device associated with the first user to the on-going conference.
A system comprising:
- input-output (I/O) circuitry configured to:
- receive an audio sample associated with on-going conference comprising plurality of users;
- and
- receive an ambient sound sample captured by a microphone of a first device associated with a first user and not currently joined to the on-going conference;
- control circuitry is further configured to:
- determine that the first device, associated with a first user and not currently joined to the on-going conference, should be joined to the on-going conference by:
- determining that the first user associated with the first device has been invited to join the on-going conference and that the first device is within a threshold distance of a second device associated with at least one user of the plurality of users in the on-going conference;
- and
- in response to determining that the audio sample matches the ambient sound sample, determining that the first device associated with the first user should be joined to the on-going conference;
- and
- join the first device associated with the first user to the on-going conference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.