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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAnne M. Archambault, Pavel Curtis, Brian Meek, Jeremy B. Smith, Douglas Wyatt
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A conferencing system provides the scheduling of virtual meetings with meeting lobbies so that a meeting presenter can conduct a virtual meeting without the need to send out invitations to attendees. A person that wants to conduct a virtual meeting can schedule with the conferencing system a meeting with a meeting lobby. The meeting lobby has an address, but there is no associated privileged information, such as a meeting password. Would-be meeting attendees use the meeting lobby address to enter the meeting lobby as visitors in the lobby, and request to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby. A meeting presenter can then either grant authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting, or deny authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting. If a visitor in the meeting lobby is denied authorization to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby, the conferencing system removes the visitor from the meeting lobby.
A method, performed by a handheld device having a memory and a processor, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system having a memory and a processor, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
A computing system, having a memory and a processor, the computing system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.