# US 2014/0156756 A1 · Virtual Meeting Video Sharing > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0156756 A1 - Document ID: US20140156756A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/090,438 - Filed: 2013-11-26 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-06-08 - Assignees: Cisco Technology, Inc. - Applicants: Cisco Technology, Inc. - Inventors: Jianzhong Ding; Haitao Xin; Zheng Yuan; Guangbing Liu; Hailei Sheng - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140156756A1 ## CPC - H04L 65/403: Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) - G06F 3/1454: {involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay} - G06F 3/1462: {with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays} - H04L 12/1827: {Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation} - H04L 65/1069: Session establishment or de-establishment - H04L 65/4015: {where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference} - H04L 65/4025: {where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services} - H04N 7/157: {defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents (computer conference optimisation or adaptation H04L12/1827)} - H04L 51/18: Commands or executable codes - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A method is provided in one particular example that includes identifying an attempt by a first communications device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player. The first communications device can be sharing at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first communications device with one or more other remote communications devices participating in the virtual meeting session. The method can also include identifying a copy of the video data, and launching one or more media players to present at least a portion of the copy of the video data on the one or more other remote communications devices. The one or more media players are launched to correspond to a location of the first media player on the shared portion of the desktop. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, comprising: at a server device, identifying an attempt by a first video device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player, wherein the first video device shares at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first video device with one or more other remote video devices participating in the virtual meeting session; receiving from the first video device and the one or more other remote video devices video coordination data including playback quality information of the video data; determining from the video coordination data that playback quality of the video data at one of the remote video devices is degraded; and in response to determining that the playback quality of the video data is degraded, sending to the remote video device with degraded video data an instruction to launch a media player native to the remote video device such that the media player on the remote video device plays the video data at a portion of a desktop screen of the remote video device at which the degraded video data would have otherwise been played. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein sending comprises sending the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to mask the degraded video data with video data played by the native media player. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein sending comprises sending the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to overlay the video data played by the native media player on the degraded video data at the portion of the desktop screen. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein sending comprises sending the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to play encoded video, in native quality, on the native media player. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a message to the remote video device with the degraded video data to instruct the remote video device to edit out the degraded video data from the desktop screen. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein sending comprises sending the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to erase the degraded video data. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising sending an indication to the first video device to instruct the first video device to omit sending subsequent video data to the video device with the degraded video data. ### Claim 8 An apparatus comprising: a network connection unit; and a processor coupled to the network connection unit, and configured to: identify an attempt by a first video device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player, wherein the first video device shares at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first video device with one or more other remote video devices participating in the virtual meeting session; receive from the first video device and the one or more other remote video devices video coordination data including playback quality information of the video data; determine from the video coordination data that playback quality of the video data at one of the remote video devices is degraded; and in response to determining that the playback quality of the video data is degraded, send to the remote video device with degraded video data an instruction to launch a media player native to the remote video device such that the media player on the remote video device plays the video data at a portion of a desktop screen of the remote video device at which the degraded video data would have otherwise been played. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to mask the degraded video data with video data played by the native media player. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to overlay the video data played by the native media player on the degraded video data at the portion of the desktop screen. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to play encoded video, in native quality, on the native media player. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send a message to the remote video device with the degraded video data to instruct the remote video device to edit out the degraded video data from the desktop screen. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to erase the degraded video data. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send an indication to the first video device to instruct the first video device to omit sending subsequent video data to the video device with the degraded video data. ### Claim 15 A system comprising: a memory element storing data; and a processor operable to execute instructions associated with the stored data and configured to: identify an attempt by a first video device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player, wherein the first video device shares at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first video device with one or more other remote video devices participating in the virtual meeting session; receive from the first video device and the one or more other remote video devices video coordination data including playback quality information of the video data; determine from the video coordination data that playback quality of the video data at one of the remote video devices is degraded; and in response to determining that the playback quality of the video data is degraded, send to the remote video device with degraded video data an instruction to launch a media player native to the remote video device such that the media player on the remote video device plays the video data at a portion of a desktop screen of the remote video device at which the degraded video data would have otherwise been played. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to mask the degraded video data with video data played by the native media player. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instruction to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to overlay the video data played by the native media player on the degraded video data at the portion of the desktop screen. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to play encoded video, in native quality, on the native media player. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to send a message to the remote video device with the degraded video data to instruct the remote video device to edit out the degraded video data from the desktop screen. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to send the instructions to the remote video device to cause the remote video device to erase the degraded video data.