Systems and methods for connecting a conference room to an ongoing meeting session
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsBoon Kiat Law, Karthikeyan Krishnakumar
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Abstract
Systems and methods for connecting a conference room to an ongoing meeting session are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a video bar of a conference room may include a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the video bar to: transmit a first signal advertising the availability of the conference room; receive a second signal from a client Information Handling System (IHS), wherein the second signal comprises an identification of an ongoing meeting session; and join the ongoing meeting session using the received identification.
Claims12
A hardware memory device configured with program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by a processor of a client Information Handling System (IHS), cause the client IHS to perform operations that comprise:
- receive a first electromagnetic signal that comprises a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement with an indication that a first ultrasonic signal is active in a conference room;
- in response to receipt of the BLE advertisement, enable a microphone and apply a high-pass filter to detect a room identifier in the first ultrasonic signal;
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- in response to detection of the room identifier, transmit a second signal to a video bar of the conference room, wherein the second signal comprises a session passcode, an identification of an ongoing meeting session of the client IHS, and a sharing key that remains valid while the first ultrasonic signal is detected in the conference room, wherein the sharing key is invalidated by the client IHS in response to detection of a timeout or cessation of the first ultrasonic signal, and wherein the video bar is configured to join the ongoing meeting session based, at least in part, on receipt of the second signal.
A method comprising:
- receiving a first electromagnetic signal that comprises a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement with an indication that a first ultrasonic signal is active in a conference room, using a client Information Handling System (IHS);
- in response to receiving the BLE advertisement, enabling a microphone and applying a high-pass filter for detecting a room identifier in the first ultrasonic signal, using the client IHS;
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- in response to detecting the room identifier, transmitting a second signal to a video bar of the conference room, wherein the second signal comprises a session passcode, an identification of an ongoing meeting session of the client IHS, and a sharing key that remains valid while the first ultrasonic signal remains detected in the conference room, wherein the sharing key is invalidated by the client IHS in response to detection of a timeout or cessation of the first ultrasonic signal, and wherein the video bar joins the ongoing meeting session based, at least in part, on receiving the second signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.