Controlled delivery of messages for to a presenter of a communication session
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsBahram Ali, Fehmi Chebil
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Abstract
The techniques disclosed herein provide a system that can control the delivery of messages to users of a communication session. When one of the participants, who is deemed as a permitted user, sends a message to a presenter, the system renders at least a portion of the private message in a region associated with the sender. Other users who are restricted users, are not permitted to send a message to the presenter while the system is in presentation mode. Permitted users can be users having identities having a domain that is common to the presenter, e.g., an internal employee, while the restricted users may have identities having a domain that is different than the identity of the presenter.
Claims20
A method for controlling a delivery of messages communicated to a presenter from restricted attendees and permitted attendees of a virtual meeting, the method executing on a system, the method comprising:
- initiating a presentation mode for the virtual meeting in response to an input received from a computing device associated with the presenter, wherein the presentation mode provides the presenter with control of shared content to be distributed to computing devices of attendees of the virtual meeting;
- in response to the initiating of the presentation mode, entering the presentation mode by:
- causing the distribution of the shared content to the computing devices of the attendees of the virtual meeting;
- causing a display of a user interface on the computing device of the presenter, the user interface comprising a rendering of the shared content that is controlled by the presenter;
- during the presentation mode, receiving a first message from a first computer associated with a restricted attendee;
- determining that the first message is received from the restricted attendee;
- in response to determining that the first message is received from the restricted attendee, inhibiting the display of the first message on the computing device of the presenter;
- during the presentation mode, receiving a second message from a second computer associated with a permitted attendee;
- determining that the second message is received from one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode;
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- in response to determining that the second message is received from the one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode, causing a display of the rendering of the second message on the computing device of the presenter.
A system for controlling delivery of messages to a presenter from restricted attendees and permitted attendees of a virtual meeting, the system comprising:
- one or more processing units;
- and
- a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the one or more processing units to:
- initiate a presentation mode for the virtual meeting in response to an input received from a computing device associated with the presenter, wherein the presentation mode provides the presenter with control of shared content to be distributed to computing devices of attendees of the virtual meeting,
- in response to the initiating of the presentation mode, entering the presentation mode by:
- cause the distribution of the shared content to the computing devices of the attendees of the virtual meeting,
- cause a display of a user interface on the computing device of the presenter, the user interface comprising a rendering of the shared content that is controlled by the presenter,
- during the presentation mode, receiving a first message from a first computer associated with an restricted attendee,
- determine that the first message is received from the restricted attendee,
- in response to determining that the first message is received from the restricted attendee, inhibit the display of the first message on the computing device of the presenter,
- during the presentation mode, receive a second message from a second computer associated with a permitted attendee;
- determine that the second message is received from one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode;
- in response to determining that the second message is received from the one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode, cause a display of the rendering of the second message on the computing device of the presenter.
A computer-readable storage device for controlling a delivery of messages communicated to a presenter from restricted attendees and permitted attendees of a virtual meeting, the computer-readable storage device having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause one or more processing units of a system to:
- initiate a presentation mode for the virtual meeting in response to an input received from a computing device associated with the presenter, wherein the presentation mode provides the presenter with control of shared content to be distributed to computing devices of attendees of the virtual meeting;
- in response to the initiating of the presentation mode, entering the presentation mode by:
- cause the distribution of the shared content to the computing devices of the attendees of the virtual meeting;
- cause a display of a user interface on the computing device of the presenter, the user interface comprising a rendering of the shared content that is controlled by the presenter;
- during the presentation mode, receiving a first message from a first computer associated with an restricted attendee;
- determine that the first message is received from the restricted attendee;
- in response to determining that the first message is received from the restricted attendee, inhibit the display of the first message on the computing device of the presenter;
- during the presentation mode, receive a second message from a second computer associated with a permitted attendee;
- determine that the second message is received from one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode;
- in response to determining that the second message is received from the one of the permitted attendees during the presentation mode, cause a display of the rendering of the second message on the computing device of the presenter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.