Parallel online meetings
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorRichard Harrington
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Abstract
A virtual meeting system is discussed herein. An online meeting application can provide a parallel virtual meeting between or among two or more participants of a main virtual meeting. The parallel virtual meeting permits two or more participants of the main virtual meeting to have a “smaller-sized” meeting in parallel with the main virtual speaker or presentation while still participating in the main virtual meeting. Therefore, the participants of the parallel virtual meeting do not have to connect via another device or application and can avoid disrupting the main virtual meeting. The parallel virtual meeting can permit two separate meetings, such as one meeting with all participants and one meeting with a subset of all the participants.
Claims22
A system for presenting a virtual meeting having multiple participants, comprising:
- a processor;
- a plurality of programming instructions configured to be operated by the processor to perform operations including;
- establishing a main communication link for a main virtual meeting among all of the multiple participants, wherein the main virtual meeting includes a virtual room and the multiple participants include at least a first avatar and a second avatar located in the virtual room;
- establishing a parallel communication link for a parallel virtual meeting between or among a subset of the multiple participants, the parallel virtual meeting occurring concurrently with the main virtual meeting;
- determining an adjustment to an audio parameter of an audio signal received by a participant device during active participation of a participant in the main virtual meeting, the audio parameter based on a hearing loss attribute, wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on an angle of the first avatar relative to the second avatar within the virtual room;
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- creating an adjusted audio signal based on the adjustment to the audio parameter of the audio signal and the active participation of the participant in the main virtual meeting, wherein an output is further configured to transmit the adjusted audio signal to the participant device.
A method for presenting a virtual meeting having multiple participants, comprising:
- establishing a main communication link for a main virtual meeting among all of the multiple participants, wherein the main virtual meeting includes a virtual room and the multiple participants include at least a first avatar and a second avatar located in the virtual room;
- establishing a parallel communication link for a parallel virtual meeting between or among a subset of the multiple participants, the parallel virtual meeting occurring concurrently with the main virtual meeting;
- determining an adjustment to an audio parameter of an audio signal received by a participant device during active participation of a participant in the main virtual meeting, the audio parameter based on a hearing loss attribute, wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on a distance between the first avatar relative to the second avatar within the virtual room;
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- creating an adjusted audio signal based on the adjustment to the audio parameter of the audio signal and the active participation of the participant in the main virtual meeting, wherein an output is further configured to transmit the adjusted audio signal to the participant device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.