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US 12,587,403 B1Granted
Creating speaker notes for virtual conferences
AssigneeZoom Communications, Inc.
InventorXiaolong Cai
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Abstract
Objects in a document are identified via a private user interface of a conferencing software. Notes are associated, in a data store, with at least some of the objects of the document in response to requests to associate the notes to the at least some of the objects. At presentation time, the document is shared in a conference via the conferencing software. At least one of the notes is displayed in the private user interface based on a portion of the document currently displayed in the conference.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- identifying, via a private user interface of a conferencing software, objects in a document;
- receiving requests to associate notes with at least some of the objects of the document, wherein the document comprises a slide and at least one of the notes is associated with an object included in the slide, and wherein the object included in the slide is selected from a set comprising a bullet point and a visual object;
- in response to receiving the requests, associating, in a data store, the notes with the at least some of the objects of the document including the note associated with the object included in the slide;
- displaying, in the private user interface, an object list user interface populated based on at least some of the objects identified in the document;
- for each identified object that has one or more notes associated therewith, presenting, in the object list user interface, a respective indicator indicating that the each identified object has one or more associated notes, including an indicator for the object included in the slide;
- sharing the document in a conference via the conferencing software;
- displaying the private user interface at a device of a presenter in the conference but not at devices of other conference participants;
- and
- displaying, in the private user interface, at least one of the notes based on a portion of the document currently displayed in the conference.
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A system, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in the one or more memories to:
- identify, via a private user interface of a conferencing software, objects in a document;
- receive requests to associate notes with at least some of the objects of the document, wherein the document comprises a slide and at least one of the notes is associated with an object included in the slide, and wherein the object included in the slide is selected from a set comprising a bullet point and a visual object;
- in response to receiving the requests, associate, in a data store, the notes with the at least some of the objects of the document including the note associated with the object included in the slide;
- display, in the private user interface, an object list user interface populated with based on at least some of the objects identified in the document;
- for each identified object that has one or more notes associated therewith, present, in the object list user interface, a respective indicator indicating that the each identified object has one or more associated notes, including an indicator for the object included in the slide;
- share the document in a conference via the conferencing software;
- display the private user interface at a device of a presenter in the conference but not at devices of other conference participants;
- and
- display in the private user interface, at least one of the notes based on a portion of the document currently displayed in the conference.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- identifying, via a private user interface of a conferencing software, objects in a document;
- receiving requests to associate notes with at least some of the objects of the document, wherein the document comprises a slide and at least one of the notes is associated with an object included in the slide, and wherein the object included in the slide is selected from a set comprising a bullet point and a visual object;
- in response to receiving the requests, associating, in a data store, the notes with the at least some of the objects of the document including the note associated with the object included in the slide;
- displaying, in the private user interface, an object list user interface populated based on at least some of the objects identified in the document;
- for each identified object that has one or more notes associated therewith, presenting, in the object list user interface, a respective indicator indicating that the each identified object has one or more associated notes, including an indicator for the object included in the slide;
- sharing the document in a conference via the conferencing software;
- displaying the private user interface at a device of a presenter in the conference but not at devices of other conference participants;
- and
- displaying, in the private user interface, at least one of the notes based on a portion of the document currently displayed in the conference.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.